BOYCOTTING BEGINS
As of the two step-brothers release from jail their stores are being boycotted! All blacks are not shopping at their stores. This is destroying their business! The peer pressure is getting worse. The brothers are starting to consider leaving town!
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
emmett till case
Dear reader,
I did my research on the Emmett Till case and murdering. I choose this topic because I was interested in finding out how the case had been handled and what the whole story was. That was also my investigation question.
What I have learned over all is that most people thought of this a murder and some thought of it as just another lynching. When they toke the case to court the only thing the killers were charged for was for kidnapping. When the killers where free the town started to boycott their stores and put peer pressure on them to leave the town.
For my firsts piece I did a short story. In this piece I was showing background information. It mostly talks about who Emmett was and why he was in the south.
For my second piece I did a story. In this piece I am showing how things got started, what was said to the clerk, and how she reacted. She had said that she didn’t want Emmett hurt or anything to happen to him but he wanted to show him he need to show more respect.
For my next piece I made a time line. In this piece I am showing the events from when Emmett is born till when the case is over. This piece is mostly meant to show how long the trial toke.
For my fourth piece I made a police report. I did this to show that the killers were arrested and that what they had said to the police. I also did this to give another point of view of the incident that had caused this problem.
For the fifth piece I did a newspaper article. This contains how the brother(killers) had their stores boycotted and how peer pressure causes them and their families to leave town.
For my sixth piece I did a funeral invention. This tells about how Emmett’s mother couldn’t even tell that his body was him. It also includes how his mother had an open casket funeral. Who, where, and facts about the funeral.
I did my research on the Emmett Till case and murdering. I choose this topic because I was interested in finding out how the case had been handled and what the whole story was. That was also my investigation question.
What I have learned over all is that most people thought of this a murder and some thought of it as just another lynching. When they toke the case to court the only thing the killers were charged for was for kidnapping. When the killers where free the town started to boycott their stores and put peer pressure on them to leave the town.
For my firsts piece I did a short story. In this piece I was showing background information. It mostly talks about who Emmett was and why he was in the south.
For my second piece I did a story. In this piece I am showing how things got started, what was said to the clerk, and how she reacted. She had said that she didn’t want Emmett hurt or anything to happen to him but he wanted to show him he need to show more respect.
For my next piece I made a time line. In this piece I am showing the events from when Emmett is born till when the case is over. This piece is mostly meant to show how long the trial toke.
For my fourth piece I made a police report. I did this to show that the killers were arrested and that what they had said to the police. I also did this to give another point of view of the incident that had caused this problem.
For the fifth piece I did a newspaper article. This contains how the brother(killers) had their stores boycotted and how peer pressure causes them and their families to leave town.
For my sixth piece I did a funeral invention. This tells about how Emmett’s mother couldn’t even tell that his body was him. It also includes how his mother had an open casket funeral. Who, where, and facts about the funeral.
Monday, 12 April 2010
Emmett Till Case
The Emmett till case is about a 14 year old boy who lived in Chicago. His mother was taking a trip and sent him to the south to stay with his great uncle and cousins. It was the August of 1955 so the south was still segregated. Since Emmett was not from the south he was not use to the way things had been handled. He didn’t talk nor does act like his cousins. Emmett also didn’t hang his head or say “sir” when talking to a white store keeper. A week after Emmett arrived at his great-uncle; him, his uncle, and seven other teens went to money (a town around the location of his great uncles house) to join a dozen other black youths congregating outside a white grocery store. They joined the congregating.
The county where his great uncle had lived was Tallahatchie County (in the northwest corner of Mississippi). It was a poorly educated. The average adult had 5.7 years of school. There is 2/3 black citizens and not one black could vote. Most of the black worked as tenant framers on cotton plantation or as share croppers. The southern states enforced the Jim Crow segregation laws more then the northern states had. The tension was running high at the time because few months before U.S Supreme court ordered southern states integrate blacks into white schools.
The Emmett till case is about a 14 year old boy who lived in Chicago. His mother was taking a trip and sent him to the south to stay with his great uncle and cousins. It was the August of 1955 so the south was still segregated. Since Emmett was not from the south he was not use to the way things had been handled. He didn’t talk nor does act like his cousins. Emmett also didn’t hang his head or say “sir” when talking to a white store keeper. A week after Emmett arrived at his great-uncle; him, his uncle, and seven other teens went to money (a town around the location of his great uncles house) to join a dozen other black youths congregating outside a white grocery store. They joined the congregating.
The county where his great uncle had lived was Tallahatchie County (in the northwest corner of Mississippi). It was a poorly educated. The average adult had 5.7 years of school. There is 2/3 black citizens and not one black could vote. Most of the black worked as tenant framers on cotton plantation or as share croppers. The southern states enforced the Jim Crow segregation laws more then the northern states had. The tension was running high at the time because few months before U.S Supreme court ordered southern states integrate blacks into white schools.
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