Her manuscript is in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill library archives and will not be available for public view until , according to Tyson. Clearly, he observed, she had been altered by the social and legal advances that had overtaken the South in the intervening half century. This is unfortunate. Her changed attitude, if genuine, might have real meaning today, what with a polarized electorate, renewed racial tensions, and organizations and Web sites promoting white supremacy.
Shortly before the election, I talked to Myrlie Evers-Williams, the year-old widow of Medgar Evers, who was assassinated by a racist attacker in Medgar wanted America to be better. Her hopes are echoed by the Reverend Jesse Jackson. She said she thought about going to the back of the bus. Board of Education ] decision, and blacks ran with it. A high school dropout, she won two beauty contests and married Roy Bryant, an ex-soldier.
The store was located at one end of the main street in the tiny town of Money, the heart of the cotton-growing Mississippi Delta. They had two sons and lived in two small rooms in the back of the store. Milam, an imposing man of six feet two inches, weighing pounds. Milam prided himself on knowing how to "handle" blacks. He had served in World War II and received combat medals. Incident at the Store On the evening of August 24, , Emmett Till went with his cousins and some friends to Bryant's Grocery for refreshments after picking cotton in the hot sun.
The boys went into the store one or two at a time to buy soda pop or bubble gum. Emmett walked in and bought two cents' worth of bubble gum. Though exactly what happened next is uncertain, Emmett flirted with, whistled at, or touched the hand or waist of Carolyn.
She stormed out of the store. The kids outside said she was going to get a pistol. Frightened, Emmett and his group left. Men Outraged Carolyn told her sister-in-law, Juanita, who was in the back of the store with their children, what had happened. They agreed not to tell their husbands, who were out of town on a trucking job.
When Roy and J. A: He said, "How about a date, baby? A: I turned around and started back to the back of the store. Q: You did what? A: I turned to get to the back of the store. Q: Did you do anything further then? He came on down that way and he caught me at the cash register. Q: You say he caught you? Q: How did he catch you? A: Well, he put his left hand on my waist, and he put his other hand over on the other side.
Q: How were you going down along the counter there? Did he approach you from the front, or from the rear or how? A: From the side. Q: Now, Mrs. Bryant, will you stand up and put my hands just where he grasped you? Will you show the Court and jury? A: It was like this demonstrating by putting Mr. Carlton's hands on her body. Q: He grabbed you like that, did he? Q: In other words, with his left arm around your back? Q: And his left hand on your left hip?
Q: And he had his right hand on your right hip? Q: Did he say anything to you then at the time he grabbed you there by the cash register? Q: What did he say? A: He said, "What's the matter, baby? Can't you take it? Q: He said, "What's the matter, baby? Q: Did you then try to free yourself?
Q: Was it difficult? Did you succeed in freeing yourself? Q: Did he say anything further to you at that time? A: He said, "You needn't be afraid of me. Q: Can you tell the Court just what that word begins with, what letter it begins with?
A: The witness did not answer verbally but shook her head negatively. Q: In other words, it is an unprintable word? Q: Did he say anything after that one unprintable word? Q: And what was that? A: Well, he said — well — "With white women before. A: Then this other n came in the store and got him by the arm. Q: And what happened then? A: And then he told him to come on and let's go. Q: Did he leave the store willingly or unwillingly?
A: Unwillingly. Q: How did the other negro get out of the store then? How did they leave? A: He had him by the arm and led him out. Q: Were there any white men in the store at the time this occurred?
Q: Were there any other negro men in the store at the time? Q: Were there any other persons outside the store? Q: Were they white men or colored men? A: Colored. Q: Were there a number of them out there? How many of them were out there? A: Oh, about eight or nine. Yearwood says that Brooks loves to tell stories about how his mother used to stay up all night to baste the turkey before Thanksgiving.
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