WIUM Local
(2007-02-27)
CHICAGO, IL
(Chicago Public Radio) -
A relative of murder victim Emmett Till is speaking out on the closure of the decades-long investigation. A Mississippi grand jury quietly finished deliberations recently, but issued no indictments.
Cousin Simeon (SIMM-me-uhn) Wright (right) has followed the case for fifty-two years.
He says Emmett Till deserved justice decades ago.
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[Incue:The justice system of Mississippi refused to even consider convicting these men, because Emmett was black and they were white. That's what really turned people off. They haven't forgotten that. I haven't forgotten that either. You can't forget anything like that]
[Outcue:can't forget anything like that.]
[notes:Next, we'll hear what a local relative of Emmett Till has to say about the close of the famous murder case.]
Emmett Till's mother famously displayed his mutilated body in a Chicago church.
Jet magazine distributed the grisly images around the world.
Civil rights leader Rosa Parks once said Till's death inspired her own activism.
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