MONEY, Miss.–The 70th anniversary of Emmett Till’s death will be remembered this weekend with several events. One of those events happened Thursday at the Mississippi Capitol.
“It’s 70 years that we stand here today, feeling the same sense of injustice, feeling the same sense of pain, feeling the same sense that his death will not be in vain as his mother wanted and feeling the same sense for the search for truth, justice and accountability,” said Deborah Watts, the head of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation, as a group gathered in the Capitol rotunda to remember Till.
Watts is a cousin of Till/
Till was murdered in Money, north of Greenwood, in 1955, for wolf whistling at a white woman at Bryant’s Grocery, according to witnesses and testimony at the trial of his admitted killer, J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, who were acquitted, in a case that helped start the modern Civil Rights movement.
Thousands of pages of records from the FBI, the Dept. of Justice and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, were recently released, allowing for the public to be able to see how the federal government conducted its own investigation of the case.
It was announced this week that the pistol used to shoot Till will be on display at the two Mississippi museums.
