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1. • • On January 24, 1956, Look magazine publishes the confessions of J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, two white men from Mississippi who were acquitted in the 1955 kidnapping and murder of Emmett Louis Till, an African American teenager from Chicago.
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   Who killed Emmett Till?

   • Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy visiting family in Mississippi from Chicago, was brutally murdered in August 1955. J.W. Milam and his brother Roy Bryant, both white, were charged with the crime. Unfortunately, to no one's surprise, they were acquitted by an all-white, male jury. What happened to Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam after the trial?

   What Happened to Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, Emmett Till's Killers?

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   Who was Emmett Till?

   • Disclosed here is the true account of the slaying in Mississippi of a Negro youth named Emmett Till. Last September in Sumner, Miss., a petit jury found the youth's admitted abductors not guilty of murder. In November, in Greenwood, a grand jury declined to indict them for kidnapping.

   The Confession of Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam to the 1955 murder of

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   What happened to Bryant & Milam?

   • On September 19, the kidnapping and murder trial of Bryant and Milam began in Sumner, Mississippi. Five days later, on September 23, the all-white, all-male jury acquitted the two men of murder after deliberating for a little over an hour.

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   What did Milam say to till?

   • When Carolyn told her husband that Till had whistled at her, he and Milam went to Till’s uncle’s home, where the boy was staying. Milam told Huie that he said to Till, “You the n?—– who did the talking?” When the boy said, “Yeah,” Milam said, “Don’t say ‘yeah’ to me. I’ll blow your head off.

   A look back at the magazine that exposed Emmett Till’s killers

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3. www.history.com › this-day-in-history › emmett-tillEmmett Till murderers make magazine confession - HISTORY

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   Nov 13, 2009 · In the early hours of August 28, Roy Bryant and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, abducted Emmett Till from his great-uncle’s home. The men were soon arrested but maintained their innocence.

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   Disclosed here is the true account of the slaying in Mississippi of a Negro youth named Emmett Till. Last September in Sumner, Miss., a petit jury found the youth's admitted abductors not guilty of murder. In November, in Greenwood, a grand jury declined to indict them for kidnapping.

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   Jan 7, 2022 · Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy visiting family in Mississippi from Chicago, was brutally murdered in August 1955. J.W. Milam and his brother Roy Bryant, both white, were charged with the crime. Unfortunately, to no one's surprise, they were acquitted by an all-white, male jury.

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6. www.pbs.org › features › till-killers-confessionThe Murder of Emmett Till | American Experience | PBS

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   Apr 15, 2023 · Article. The murder trial of Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam laid bare the racism that ruled Mississippi. Timeline. Emmett Till's body is taken to Chicago's Roberts Temple Church...

7. www.pbs.org › emmett-trial-jw-milam-and-roy-bryantThe Trial of J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant - PBS

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   When the murder trial of Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam opened in Sumner, Mississippi, on a steamy September morning in 1955, few realized the town would be forever linked to the...

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   Dec 9, 2021 · Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam were acquitted by an all-white jury in 1955. Bryant and Milam confessed to the killing in a 1956 Look magazine article.

9. www.pbs.org › wgbh › americanexperienceGetting Away with Murder | American Experience | PBS

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   After their acquittal in the Emmett Till trial, defendant Roy Bryant (right), smokes a cigar as his wife happily embraces him and his half brother, J.W. Milam, Corbis. Roy and Carolyn Bryant...