Retracing the murder of Emmett Till

 

[VIDEO] If I ever do my Civil Rights tour and go to the sites very important in the Civil Rights era is to go to Money, Mississippi. To visit that grocery store where 14-year-old Till allegedly made a move on the wife of the store owner. What I learned here in this video by Mobile Instinct is we'll never really know what happened here, we do know that Mrs. Bryant allegedly admitted decades later that the story that caused Till's murder was fabricated.

They go to a bridge where allegedly Till's body was dumped into the Tallahatchie River. And yet another site along the river where his body was most likely tossed into the river with a fan attached to his body. They went to the site of Till's torture and murder. They go to the courthouse where Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were tried and acquitted for murder.

Also another site is the church of Till's great-uncle where they intended to have the funeral and a nearby graveyard where Till would've been buried. Instead as history records Mamie Mobley wanted her son to be sent to Chicago for his funeral. And as disfigured as this boy was by the actions of Bryant and Milam she wanted to show the world what they did to her boy! 

Oh well the bridge isn't used much anymore. The church of Till's family is basically a shell with the earth reclaiming it - not too uncommon in the country unfortunately I know by experience. The store where allegedly Till whistled at Mrs. Bryant is basically a shell also. However, all seen in this video are important places of history.

Also noted for $3,000 back in 1955 Bryant and Milam who couldn't be tried again because of "double jeopardy" were all too willing to take the money to tell their story of their crime to Look magazine.

Terry vs. Ohio - Stop & Frisk

[VIDEO] Allow me to introduce you to Mr. Beat, a social studies teacher out of Kansas who is an "edutuber" who among other things looks at important Supreme Court rulings. This video was uploaded to YouTube on July 10, 2020 and had wanted to share this with you all.

We're still under some form of unrest over the issue of "racial justice" and this is a case worth looking at since, many citizens want authorities to look at the issue of "stop & frisk". In this video we also learn they can also be referred to as "Terry stops".

The subject Terry was stopped by a Cleveland police detective in 1967 just as he was about to commit a crime. This case is pretty interesting there were three men who were arrested by the detective, however, two were arrested they were Black. The one who got off scott free was white.

I started Googling what happened to all the subjects of this case. What happened to the Black suspects, and what happened to the detective. Found this article it's very interesting that everyone who was related to the people involved with this case are now police officers. Unfortunately the Terry of this ruling met a very sad end, having died while incarcerated.

CPS Students Traveling To Memphis #MLK50 #HarlanFalcons

[VIDEO] I'm sorry I missed this from last month. A group of CPS students from three high schools including Harlan (Go Falcons) & Hirsch High Schools observed the 50th anniversary of Dr. King's assassination paying a visit to Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. Martin Luther King on April 3, 1968 died at the Lorraine Hotel which is now the National Civil Rights museum.

These students will also visit four historically Black colleges where according to Harlan Principal Ramona Outlaw:

“There’s a nurturing that goes on at those campuses that is indeed unmatched. The students, I want them to feel like they’ve come home and that place that they will call home for the next four years is something that they will be proud of.”

I sincerely hope these young people soak in the importance of that journey from last month.

#MLK50

It's hard to believe it's been 50 years already. Back on this date in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Needless to say there were events held on this day to mark his untimely demise. At this moment I don't plan to pour through them.

However, I will share this quote from Dr. King shared via ig from Harold Washington College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago. Perhaps he's right on the issue of education intelligence plus character. As we remember the movement he led and gave his life for we could ponder this quote. Of course that quote among others!

A post shared by Harold Washington (@haroldwashingtoncollege) on Apr 4, 2018 at 5:47pm PDT

Today is the Martin Luther King holiday...

I wanted to do about post about Dr. Martin Luther King. Mostly the holiday which is named for him I always looked forward to as it was a day off from school. Of course there is much more to this holiday than that.

President's Day, Easter, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years are all a lot more than days off from school. These holidays we got as students have meaning to someone.

So it's great that American's get a day off for the contributions of the famed civil rights leader Dr. King. I recently saw Selma at the show and perhaps if you don't do anything else on the King holiday go see that movie. Hopefully our young people would appreciate what he went through so that all American's would be created equal.

ALSO, I never had the chance to visit the King Memorial. Then again DC is always a good trip because there's lots to see there so that will just be one more place to visit in the near future.

BTW, below you will see the trailer for Selma [VIDEO]