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.