Milam, of the 1955 kidnapping and murder of Till. A childhood case of polio left him with a stutter, but by the time he was a teenager, Emmett Till had grown into a cocky, self-assured boy who loved to be the center of attention. LOOK Magazine, January 24, 1956. Huie also discusses James Earl Ray, Edward Aaron, and white Southern . Black Man: I don't know whether they should or not. You are already subscribed to our newsletter! The next day, Roy Bryant was arrested for kidnapping. Shortly after the men were acquitted, they sold their story for $4,000 to reporter William Bradford Huie. Milam's trial for murder opened in Sumner, Mississippi, which touted itself as "a good place to raise a boy." One or two at a time, the boys drifted into the store and back out again with a cold drink or a piece of candy. Narrator:Roy Bryant and J.W. Mamie Till:He was running up the steps to try to make it to the train and I said, "Emmett, or Beau" -- I called him Beau, I said, "Where are you going? Drinking fountains are segregated. Mamie Till:They said that about one in every five had to be assisted out of the building. Lamar, much like his brother, has been kept away from public view in the decades since his family first came into public notoriety. I passed, they still beatin', they still beatin'. Milam? Performed by Sweet Honey In The Rock "Did you see anything?" No longer than two hours, the high sheriff come back. I saw him he had khaki pants on, had a green nylon shirt, and a .45 on his side. I said, "What all that blood come from?" William Bicket, POST PRODUCTION And we didn't. Rose Jourdain:I think black peoples' reaction was so visceral. Interviewer: Have you studied the case by reading the papers perhaps? All she received of his possessions was a signet ring inscribed with his initials, L.T. He died in 1994. His year of birth is calculated to be 1953, and if this is correct then he must be around 70 years old currently. And Emmett was a fun young man, just like any other young teenager. Sumner, Mississippi: Co-defendant J.W. Clark County Tribune But tragedy soon followed. The two men who were acquitted of his murder were Roy Bryant and his half brother, J.W. Roy Bryant's Death. This program was produced by WGBH Boston, Civil Rights Opponent. I mean it was almost like a 4th of July celebration, or it was almost as if the White Sox had won the pennant in the city of Chicago. Hilary Goldstein James E. Dunford And that is what led to the brutal murder of Emmett Till by Roy Bryant. I can remember when my father died, Sammy, the black man who worked for him was there and I threw my arms around his neck. The case may be closed, but the issue of racist-inspired violence against black males persists. Unfortunately, to no one's surprise, they were acquitted by an all-white, male jury. Specifically, Roy Bryant is a murderer, torturer, Kidnapper, and many more. Because -- those white folks were for real. She graduated from high school at the top of her class, and became one of the first black women in town to hold a civil service job. Ah, they had the ceiling fans that were only stirring the air up, making it hotter when it reached your body. In 1982, it was discovered by the Inspector Generals Office of the U.S Department of Agriculture that Roy was buying food stamps and selling them back to the government at full value. I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till. Narrator:In the 75 years before Emmett Till set foot in Mississippi, more than 500 black people had been lynched in the state. Vanessa Ruiz To earn extra cash, Roy worked as a trucker with his half-brother J. W. Milam, an imposing man of six-feet-two inches, weighing 235 pounds. Carolyn and Roy Bryant had two children, Lamar and Roy Bryant Jr. Wright later claimed he could feel the blood boil in hundreds of white people in the courtroom. Narrator:Roy Bryant was out of town, leaving his wife Carolyn alone behind the counter when Emmett and his cousins pulled up. "Thar he," he said. Narrator:After the trial, sheriff Clarence Strider told reporters, "I hope the Chicago niggers and the NAACP are satisfied.". At the same time, of course, they wrote about it with great relish because it was a good story. It blew my mind. Takagi Then he said, "Well, we'll be down there in a little while," and he sent deputies down here to go with me and we took the boat and went up the river. Even though the crime was savage, Roy and Milam got five local lawyers to represent them pro bono. Rose Jourdain, Journalist:I think black peoples' reaction was so visceral. Milam laid bare the racism that ruled Mississippi. Too Tight was out there washing the truck out. University of Virginia Library, ON-CAMERA INTERVIEW SUBJECTS There's one of his shoes here." The jury of 12 white men who acquitted Emmett Till's killers in 1955. Today a situation exists in Mississippi that is unlike the situation in most states in the nation. Milam helped out around the grocery. I won't ever forget, it was a Sunday afternoon. So I said, "Naw." Betty Pearson:I do believe that nationally, or at least across the South, the Emmett Till trial and the result of that trial somehow spurred the Civil Rights Movement. Notes taken during your interview are added to your application for review. Brandon Teena's story: Background, what happened, and documentaries. Their trial, where he was cleared, gained international attention and sparked a Civil Rights movement that brought about massive changes. Clenora Hudson-Weems They reacted after Emmett, who was visiting from his native Chicago, reportedly flirted with Bryant's wife. In 1945, Mamie got word that Private Till had died in Europe. Doham, who was 21 at the time of Till's murder and is now 87, was not arrested or charged in Till's lynching in 1955, but her former husband, Roy Bryant, and brother-in-law, J.W. "Hell no, that's shit you talking." Some even alluded to Roy Bryant's wife as a crossroads Marilyn Monroe because of her amazing beauty. Moses Wright, description of kidnapping:So we marched around through two rooms and I found the boy in the third room in the bed with my baby boy and they told him to get up and put his clothes on. What happened to Tone Lc? He was an expert platoon leader, expert street fighter, expert in night patrol, expert with the "grease gun," with every device for close range killing. In Mississippi, the family alerted the sheriff and then began to search for any sign of the boy along riverbanks and under bridges, "Where black folks always look," Emmett's uncle said, "when something like this happens." He was just 13 just a few weeks before we went down there. In the early morning hours of August 28, 1955, Roy Bryant, his half-brother, J.W. Black Man: I really don't know sir. Hailing from Indianola, Mississippi, Carolyn Bryant was a high school drop out who married Roy Bryant, an ex-soldier. ", Oudie Brown, Mississippi Resident:I was coming through there that mornin'. Unfortunately, Vera passed away on May 2, 2012, at 79. For three hours that morning we had a big old fire in the yard. Bryant." In 1955, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy, was kidnapped, tortured and killed in Mississippi after he allegedly whistled at a white woman. Narrator:With Sheriff Strider and courtroom sentiment clearly on the side of the defendants, reporters began their own desperate search for witnesses. UCLA Film & Television Archive They had two sons and lived in two small rooms in the back of the store. Trudy Williams A German bullet tore clear through his chest; his body bears "multiple shrapnel wounds." Of his medals, he cherishes one: combat infantryman's badge. The air in the courtroom, a reporter wrote, was "as heavy and oppressive as the moss that hangs from the cypress trees.". (Laughs) It was somethin'. Investigations from civil-rights leader Dr. T.R.M. On a steamy Wednesday afternoon, Emmett and seven other teenagers piled into Moses Wright's old Ford and headed to Bryant's grocery. ET In 1955, after being accused of flirting with a white woman (Carolyn Bryant), 14-year-old Emmett Till was beaten to death by Carolyn's husband Roy and his half-brother J.W. Narrator:Mamie Till testified that the body she'd examined and buried was indeed her son. Milam and Roy Bryant never faced additional charges connected with the murder. She stormed out of the store. Mamie Till:He thought I was exaggerating, which I was. Two rooms about 12 feet square. The two men, also white, were acquitted of this heinous and brutal crime. A group of Emmett Till Legacy Foundation, working with talented filmmaker Keith Beauchamp uncovered a warrant for the arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham, the wife of Ryan Bryant. As if this was either the last straw or maybe it was the spark. Now in her mid-80s, her current status and whereabouts are kept private by her family, though. It was here, that the Chicago Negro boy Emmett Till is alleged to have paid unwelcome attention to Roy Bryant's most attractive wife. And he was the lively one. Oudie Brown, Mississippi resident The 14-year-old boy was murdered by two white men who were then acquitted. According to witnesses, on his way out of the store, Emmett turned to Carolyn Bryant and whistled. John Herbers, Journalist:Sheriff Strider was a big, fat, plain talking, obscene talking sheriff you would expect to find in the South. Stock Footage, Mamie Comments on Trial Verdict:And what I saw was a shame before God and man. And he pulled away from me. William Pearson, THANKS TO Reporters overheard members of the jury laughing and joking in the jury room. Television networks chartered a plane to send footage to New York for the nightly news. In the fall of 1957, Carolyn and her family were living in Morgan City, Louisiana. That's what he did. Both men were ostracized. Clara Davis, Mississippi resident Yeah. Discussion centeres on the Emmett Till case and his interviews with J.W. If I could go high enough, I -- things could soak into his head that, "You have to be very careful.". Those accusations led. He was the sacrificial lamb of the movement. His half-brother, Milam, also died of cancer of the bone in 1981. He kind of scolded me for saying something like that. Their account appeared just four months after the acquittal. It was summer, and it was a good time to become a young man. Rev. Ernest Withers, Photographer:I had a cousin that was living in Mississippi and was walking down the sidewalk down near downtown in Tunica and didn't get off the sidewalk and the man slapped him and knocked him off the sidewalk. Mamie Till was in Chicago, surrounded by worried family and friends, when she was told that her only child was dead. During the 1950s, the couple ran a small grocery, Bryant's Grocery & Meat Market, that sold provisions to black sharecroppers and their children. James Eastland, Senator:You are not going to permit the NAACP to take over your schools. Greg Shea, PROJECT ADMINISTRATION Now, with the eyes of the nation turning to Mississippi, the state appointed a special prosecutor and filed charges. Magnolia Cooksey-Mathious:And as we were led into the church, my girlfriends and myself, we walked up to the casket and it was covered with a glass and we all looked down; this was our friend laying lookin' like a monster. On August 28, 1955, a 14-year-old African-American named Emmett Till was kidnapped from his relative's home in Mississippi by two adult white men, who brutally beat him to death. J. Fred MacDonald & Associates When Bryant and Milam could not afford a legal defense, five local lawyers stepped up to represent the two suspectspro bono. Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Narrator:Mamie's decision would make her son's death a touchstone for a generation. You ain't goin' to be with the white folks and the white folks ain't goin' to be with you and y'all might be (Unintell. First my brother, then me, then him, then me. "Every last Anglo-Saxon one of you," he said, "has the courage to free these men. Biography and latest updates. Narrator:After he testified, Wright left his cotton blooming in the field, his old car sitting at the station, and slipped onto the train to Chicago. Fred Grabbe's story: Background, what happened, and where is he today? If I was on the grand jury that is what I would do. He did a few welding jobs but eventually returned to the grocery business. Emmett walked in and bought two cents' worth of bubble gum. Other sources claim that he had spoken disrespectfully to her. According to her, she was scared to death. Card:After the trial, black customers boycotted Bryant's store, forcing it out of business. Many whites in the surrounding counties showed up to watch the show. Consequences was that almost anything could happen to anybody at anytime down there. "The life of a Negro in Mississippi," one European paper observed, "is not worth a whistle." Gerald Chatham Roy Bryant, Donham's husband at the time, and his half-brother J. W. Milam were acquitted of the murder, but later admitted to it inan interview with Look Magazine. You are not going to permit the NAACP to control your state. The two men later confessed to the killing in a paid magazine . His father's name was Henry Ezra Bryant. Things are still unfolding in Emmetts case decades after the trial and years after Roy Bryants death. Who was Roys wife? Robin Kelley Stock Footage, Sheriff Strider on NAACP:We never have any trouble until some of our Southern niggers go up North and the NAACP talks to 'em and they come back home. Narrator:Mamie Carthan arrived in Chicago at the age of two. The photos of Emmett Till's mutilated body stunned the nation. Meanwhile, African American spectators were relegated to the back and looked on in fear. Mamie Till:I let them know that Mississippi was not Chicago. Wheeler Parker:The concern for Emmett was that he could be, with his fun-loving, free-spirited way of living, he could get in trouble, could have a lot of problems. Wheeler Parker:The day that we went to the store in Money, we were picking cotton first half of the day, and the second half, because it was so hot -- my uncle drove the car and we took off to Money to get some refreshments, just general things you buy in a store. AP. But history holds these three accountable. Bryant accused 14-year-old Till of sexual assault. He said, "There's a shoe here. There was an almost irrational fear of black men as if every black man was ready to attack or rape a white woman if you gave him a chance. Roy Bryant was married to Carolyn Bryant Donham until his death. Sign up for the American Experience newsletter! . Mr. Rayner asked me, he said "Do you want me to touch the body up?" Mikro Press They both admitted to the murder but felt justified. However, they faced major backlash from their community after confessing to the murder in an interview. Hollis Watkins Betty Pearson, Mississippi Resident:Part of that culture was that the women were put on pedestals and they were some sort of, ah idealization of whatever it means to be woman or to be female. I'm gonna carry you dead or alive. I held up the gun. Columbus Short's bio: partner, net worth, children, what happened. In August 1955, a 14-year-oldBlack boyallegedly flirted with a white woman in a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. The message to black people was clear: hide what you know; hide even what you think, or face the consequences. And when you go to Mississippi, you're living by an entirely different set of rules. Magnolia Cooksey-Mathious, Classmate:I knew Emmett Till. Mississippi Department of Archives and History Unable to find work, Roy took his family to East Texas and attended welding school. So it was just like you know hush hush you know so I was told to keep my mouth shut and that's what I did. On a hot September in 1955, Roy Bryant and J.W. Mrs. Joyce Grant I mean, it touched us all. Is you goin?" Roy Bryant was one of the people indicted for murder in 1955. Prince Harry: The 60 Minutes Interview Transcript. Roy Bryant and J.W. Hailing from Indianola, Mississippi, Carolyn Bryant was a high school drop out who married Roy Bryant, an ex-soldier. He informed Tallahatchie County sheriff Clarence Strider. AA Rayner & Sons Tony Czech ), but ain't gonna be no love nest between black and white folk. Milam. On the eveningof August 24, 1955, Emmett Till went with his cousins and some friends to Bryant's Grocery for refreshments after picking cotton in the hot sun. Milam Bryant Scratch:We took him and we was just gonna whip him, scare some sense into him. I paused at his midsection, because I knew he would not want me looking at him. Michael Flug Ah, it is, 'yes, ma'am' and 'no, ma'am', 'yes, sir' and 'no, sir'. Her then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. We put him back in the truck. Milam and his brother Roy Bryant, both white, were charged with the crime. Are Roy Bryant and J.W. The trial drew to a close after only five days. I couldn't sleep at night. The Murder Jurors had acquitted the two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. He's only 14, and he's from up North. Local stores collected $10,000 in countertop jars for Bryant and Milam. This issue of Look magazine contains the famous William Bradford Huie article detailing the "confession" of J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant to the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till. Milam (far left) were charged with murder but were ultimately acquitted by an all-white jury. A Supreme Court decision had struck down school segregation the year before. He was that kinda kid. Emmett, her only child, was four years old. Milam, left, his wife, second from left, Roy Bryant, far right, and his wife, Carolyn Bryant, sit together in a courtroom in . Episode 264: Segment 3, David Holmberg, long-time journalist opens up about the day he interviewed Roy Bryant, the husband of the woman who accused Emmett Till of touching her inappropriately.. He would never again live in Mississippi. In 1940, Mamie married soldier Louis Till, and one year later, their son, Emmett, was born. William Bicket, INTERNS The murder trial of Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. The murder and the trial horrified the nation and the world. Under the glare of the spotlight, white Mississippians began to close ranks. Milam sold their story to a reporter forLook Magazinefor $4,000. In an interview in 1992, Roy Bryant said, " Emmett Till is dead. Milam and Bryant were acquitted in the murder of Emmett Till. Narrator:By the time Mamie received her son's body back in Chicago, two weeks after she had kissed him goodbye, Emmett's murder was front page news. Milam, had barely been acquitted of the. And he got up, and instead of killin' the white man like he wanted, he just start walkin' and never stopped until he got to Memphis and never stopped until he got up to Chicago. Chicago Defender Narrator:Putting his life at risk, Willie Reed agreed to step forward. He'd seen Roy Bryant, J.W. But they were still white folks. The jury foreman said the deciding factor was the states' failure to prove the identity of the body pulled from a river near Sumner Mississippi. Milam, abducted Till and tortured him to death. Roy's half-brother J.W. Milam, left, and Roy Bryant, right, sit with their wives in a courtroom in 1955. I just in my mind I kept sayin', "I'll see him again," you know. A Mississippi sheriff becomes a symbol of southern intransigence in the Emmett Till case. Yet Northern outrage prompted many Southerners to resent outside agitators and rally in support of the suspects. And said they wanted the boy that did the talk at Money. Mamie: I don't know, just by answering whatever questions that they ask me. There's a spot about a mile and a half from the bridge where the banks are steep. The murder trial of Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. That these kinds of things were not of their generation, that they no longer happened in America. David T. Beito Roy Bryant and his brother Millam were taken to court to be judged for abducting and murdering Emmett Till. Stock Footage, Man on the Street Interviews with two black men about trial:Interviewer: Young man do you think these two men should be indicted? White Woman: I'm almost convinced that the very beginning of this was by a communistic front. My eyes were so full of tears until I couldn't see. Wheeler Parker:We all got a-scared and someone said, "She's going to get a pistol." The Till case had become a major international news story. He said, "I won't need this where I'm going." That took an awful lot of courage for him to get up there and do what he did. Gode Davis BACK in 1955 Emmett Till was wrongfully accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. What happened to Roy Bryant and J.W. In the wee hours of . And a push to implement the new law on school desegregation had whites from the delta to the statehouse spitting fire. He had served in World War II and received combat medals. He stopped at Roy Bryant's general store in Money, 20 miles south of Glendora, where he was alone for a moment with Bryant's young wife, Carolyn. 24-year-old at the time of Emmett's death, Bryant confronted his wife Carolyn when he came to know that she was "approached" by an African American boy. Narrator:As Emmett packed his bags, Mississippi was set to explode. "Emmett Till's shoe.". And I heard a voice say, "Yes" and they drove off toward Money with him. Those who have not been to the Delta find themselves gasping at the sight as they come over the lowest hills and see that expanse of flat agricultural land. Richard Heard, Classmate:When we first met, we were in gym in Mr. Long's gym period. Despite being well-known because of their parent's case, their whereabouts are not public. I fired and the Chicago boy twisted around and caught it right in his ear. His badly disfigured body was found in the Tallahatchie River three days later. After hearing about the interaction, Donham's husband Roy and Roy's half-brother John William "J. W." Milam kidnapped, tortured, and lynched Till. I said, "It's time for us to go." Timeline The Murder of Emmett Till Emmett Till's body is taken to Chicago's Roberts. June 24, 2022 - 12:55 BST Hannah Hargrave. And as she went to the car, we all jumped in my uncle's car. Before she let them go, Mamie schooled the boys on the ways of the South. The next year Bryant and Milan were paid between $3600 and $4000 for an interview with Look magazine. Milam, on left, his wife, second from left, Roy Bryant, far right, and his wife, Carolyn Bryant, sit together in a courtroom in Sumner, Miss, on Sept. 25, 1955 . Helen R. Russell Narrator:If there were others involved, as Willie Reed and Moses Wright had testified under oath, Milam and Bryant did not name them. Narrator:A juror later revealed that the jury had stalled to "make it look good." But there, in the searing heat of the Delta courtroom, the 64-year old sharecropper had his say. John Herbers:The reaction of reporters from out of the South was one of just absolute amazement. My uncle Simmie did wake up, but they told him to go back to sleep. Mamie Till:When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before. Who is Roy Bryant and J.W Milam? Mamie: To answer any questions that my, that the attorneys might ask me to answer. Interviewer: And how about you Mrs. Milam? 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