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Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.25,0:00:11.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ I know the one thing that we did right \Nwas the day we started to fight ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.28,0:00:19.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ Keep your eyes on the prize.\NHold on. Hold on ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.27,0:00:26.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.51,0:00:33.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ (country music) ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.22,0:00:39.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- On August 21st, 1955 two teenagers from \NChicago boarded a train and traveled south
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.81,0:00:42.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to visit family in Mississippi.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.86,0:00:45.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- We was going down there\Nto pick some (inaudible).
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.49,0:00:49.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd never picked any (inaudible) before\Nand I was looking to do that
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.28,0:00:52.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I told my mother\Nthat I could pick 200 pounds
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.52,0:00:54.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she told me I couldn't, you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.89,0:00:57.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you usually go down there \Nlooking for a good time, you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.41,0:01:02.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- For more than a year, racial tensions \Nin the South had been higher than usual.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.42,0:01:06.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since the Supreme Court ruled in\NBrown v. Board of Education
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.28,0:01:09.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that segregated schools\Nwere unconstitutional.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.25,0:01:18.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The decision touched a raw nerve \Nin the white South
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.79,0:01:21.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and many organized to preserve\Nwhite supremacy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.89,0:01:25.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.63,0:01:32.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For years groups like the Ku Klux Klan\Npracticed terrorism.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.54,0:01:37.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite national Black protests, \Npublic murders of Blacks were common
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.56,0:01:40.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the mobs who committed them\Nwent unpunished.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.96,0:01:45.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the previous seventy years, there had \Nbeen more than five hundred documented
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.19,0:01:47.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lynchings in Mississippi alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.51,0:01:53.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coming from Chicago, Curtis Jones \Nand his cousin Emmett Till had little
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.92,0:01:57.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sense of the world they were entering \Nwhen they arrived in Money, Mississippi.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.70,0:02:02.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Emmett Till at the time, he was fourteen \Nyears old, had just graduated out of
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.90,0:02:04.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grammar school.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.05,0:02:08.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had some picture of white kids \Nthat he had graduate from.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.79,0:02:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was you know, female and male.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.24,0:02:14.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he told the boys down there, \Nyou know, that gather around the store
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.79,0:02:19.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they must have been around about\Nmaybe ten to twelve, you know
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.42,0:02:23.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,youngsters around there. That the \Ngirls was his girlfriend, you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.59,0:02:28.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So one of the local boys said\Nhey, there's a girl in that store there.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.46,0:02:31.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said "I bet you won't go in \Nthere and talk to her."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.99,0:02:33.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he went in there \Nto get some candy.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.98,0:02:38.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when he was leaving out the store,\Nafter buying the candy,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.60,0:02:40.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he told her to say, "bye baby."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.71,0:02:49.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the next thing I know, one of the boys\Ncame up to me and said, "Say man,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.88,0:02:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"you got a crazy cousin. He just went in \Nthere and said bye to that white woman."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.21,0:03:01.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's when this man I was \Nplaying checkers with this older man,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.26,0:03:03.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I guess he must have been around\Nabout sixty or seventy.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.78,0:03:09.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He jumps straight up and say\N"Boy, say y'all about to get out of here,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.11,0:03:13.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"that lady will come out of that store\Nand blow your brains off."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.01,0:03:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ (woman vocalizing)♪
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.17,0:03:23.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- This is Moses Wright. I am \Nthe uncle of Emmitt Lewis Till.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.45,0:03:30.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sunday morning, about two-thirty, \Nsomeone called at the door,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.28,0:03:33.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I said, "Who is it?"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.68,0:03:42.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said "This is Mr. Bryant.\NI want to talk with you and the boy."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.94,0:03:49.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I open this door,\Nthat was a man standing with
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.79,0:03:57.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a pistol in one hand and a flashlight\Nin the other hand. And he asked me,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.27,0:04:01.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Did I have two boys, that \Nare from Chicago?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.41,0:04:03.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told him, I have.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.26,0:04:08.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said "I want it, I want the \Nboy that done all that talk".
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.62,0:04:13.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then marched him to the car, \Nand they asked someone there
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.97,0:04:18.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well this is the right boy?"\NAnd the answer was, "Yeah."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.34,0:04:20.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they drove toward Money.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.94,0:04:26.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Four days later, Emmitt Till's body \Nwas found in the Tallahatchie River.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.63,0:04:32.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- His body was so badly damaged that\Nwe couldn't hardy just tell who he was,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.50,0:04:35.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he happened to have on\Na ring with his initial.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.14,0:04:37.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that cleared it up.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.47,0:04:41.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- The body was shipped home,\Nback north to Chicago,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.54,0:04:45.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where Mamie Till Bradley insisted \Non an open casket funeral.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.82,0:04:50.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"So all the world can see," she said,\N"what they did to my boy."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.11,0:05:21.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ (somber music) ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.40,0:05:23.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jet Magazine showed Till's corpse.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.75,0:05:27.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beaten, mutilated, shot through the head.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.20,0:05:32.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An entire generation of young,\NBlack people would remember
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.25,0:05:34.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the horror of that photo.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.07,0:05:48.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ (somber music) ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.34,0:05:54.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Roy Bryant, husband of the woman\Nin the store and J.W, Milam,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.42,0:05:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her brother in law, were arrested\Nfor the murder of Emmitt Till.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.39,0:06:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The trial was held in \Nnearby Sumner, Mississippi.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.55,0:06:08.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black organizations like the NAACP and \NThe Black Press worked especially hard
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.20,0:06:10.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to keep the case in the news, \Nto make an example of
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.89,0:06:13.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,southern racism for the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.06,0:06:20.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I cover the courts in many \Nareas of this country, but
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.37,0:06:26.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Till case was unbelievable.\NI mean I just didn't get the sense
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.35,0:06:28.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of being a courtroom.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.19,0:06:32.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was, first place segregated.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.33,0:06:40.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Black Press sat at a bridge table\Nfar off from the court and
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.83,0:06:44.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the boy's mother came down. \NThey sat her there,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.49,0:06:46.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the bridge table with us.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.53,0:06:49.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- What do you intend to do here today?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.50,0:06:55.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- To answer any questions that the \Nattorneys might ask me to answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.81,0:06:59.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- How do you think it's possible \Nto be of help to them?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.40,0:07:04.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I don't know. I mean just by answering \Nany questions that they ask me.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.57,0:07:07.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Do you have any evidence \Nbearing on this case.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.59,0:07:12.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I do know that this is my son.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.86,0:07:18.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- The defense argued that the body found\Ntied to the cotton gin fan in the river
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.83,0:07:22.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was so disfigured that it could\Nnot be identified as Emmett Till.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.82,0:07:26.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The trial took five long, hot days.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.08,0:07:30.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The prosecution star witness\Nwas Till's uncle, Moses Wright,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.70,0:07:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who testified despite \Nthreats to his life.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.27,0:07:36.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- He was called up on too.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.61,0:07:43.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could he see anybody in the courtroom\Nidentified anybody in that courtroom
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.48,0:07:47.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that come to his house that night\Nand got the Emmett Till out.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.73,0:07:53.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He stood up and there was\Na tension in the courtroom
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.21,0:07:56.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he says in his broken language,\N"Dar he."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.23,0:08:00.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Dar he. There he is.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.24,0:08:06.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I really didn't realize how brave\Nmy grandfather Moss Wright was,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.96,0:08:12.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but after I got older I realized\Nthat he was a brave man.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.70,0:08:17.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was a mighty brave man to\Ntravel back down there, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.58,0:08:22.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,among all those hostile peoples\Nand testify, get up in court
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.96,0:08:27.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and point his finger at a white man \Nand accuse him of murder.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.58,0:08:32.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- As the trial ended, a defense lawyer\Ntold the jury he was quote,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.80,0:08:38.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Sure every last Anglo-Saxon one of you\Nhas the courage to free these men."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.03,0:08:45.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It took the jury an hour to \Nfind the men not guilty.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.68,0:08:51.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(clapping and cheering)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.67,0:08:56.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Months later, for a fee of $4,000,\NRoy Bryant and J. W. Milam
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.78,0:09:00.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,told their story to reporter \NWilliam Bradford Huie.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.04,0:09:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Milam was startled at the belligerent \Nattitude or the fact that young Till
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.02,0:09:11.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,didn't appear to be afraid of him.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.37,0:09:15.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'd gone and gotten him out of bed\Nand had him in the back of the truck
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.35,0:09:20.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and young Till never realized \Nthe danger he was in.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.59,0:09:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm quite sure that he never thought\Nthese two men would kill him.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.10,0:09:28.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or maybe he just in such\Na strange environment,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.84,0:09:31.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he really just doesn't know\Nwhat he's up against.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.30,0:09:35.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it seems to the rational mind\Ntoday that it seems impossible
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.70,0:09:37.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they could have killed him.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.06,0:09:42.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But J. W. Milam looked up at me \Nand said, well when he told me
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.86,0:09:47.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about this white girl he had he says,\N"My friend this war's about done in now,"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.96,0:09:50.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he says, "that's what we have\Nto fight to protect."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.54,0:09:53.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he says, I just looked at him \Nand I said, "Boy you ain't
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.61,0:09:56.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"going to ever see the sun come up again."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.46,0:10:01.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I believe that the whole \NUnited States is mourning with me.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.37,0:10:05.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if the death of my son could \Nmean something to the other
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.09,0:10:10.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unfortunate people all over the world\Nthen for him to have died a hero
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.76,0:10:14.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would mean more to me than\Nfor him to have just died.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.55,0:10:17.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- The fact that the Emmett Till \Nyoung Black man could be found
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.91,0:10:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,floating down the river in Mississippi as\Nindeed many had been done over the years,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.76,0:10:28.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just set in concrete the determination\Nof people to move forward.