Emmett Till, a teen from Chicago, didn't understand that he had broken the unwritten laws of the Jim Crow South until three days later, when two white men dragged him from his bed in the dead of night, beat him brutally and then shot him in the head. Bryant's then-husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother J.W. The boy was so badly beaten that Moses Wright could identify Emmett only by his father's ring. And the way the jury chose to believe the ridiculous stories of the defense attorneys. In 1945, Mamie got word that Private Till had died in Europe. She was the wife of Roy Bryant, one of the alleged killers. In the fall of 1957, Carolyn and her family were living in Morgan City, Louisiana. Fox Movietone News Their trial, where he was cleared, gained international attention and sparked a Civil Rights movement that brought about massive changes. Roy, how about you? Narrator:Mamie Carthan arrived in Chicago at the age of two. Milam, will always be considered in history as the trio that got away with murder. (Laughs) And they just tried to ruin the thing. Ernest C. Withers, Courtesy Panopticon Gallery, Waltham, MA Interviewer: J.W.? In just over an hour, the jury returned. You are already subscribed to our newsletter! Both men were ostracized. We were goin' pretty fast and dust is flying behind us. William Winter, Governor:It was argued in coffee shops all over the Deep South, that "If we give on this, then we'll, we'll start giving on everything else and the first thing you know, we won't have a segregated society, and black people will be taking over in this part of the country.". The prosecution's best witness was Moses Wright, who had clearly seen the men who took Emmett Till from his home. And with that, he was up the steps and on his way to get on the train. I paused at his midsection, because I knew he would not want me looking at him. If I was on the grand jury that is what I would do. Schedule an interview today! J.W. Donham's husband, Roy Bryant, and brother-in-law, J W Milam, kidnapped and brutally murdered Till on August 28, 1955, and dumped his body in the Tallahatchie River. Ernest Withers, Photographer:The man had laid it out that "We got 22 seats over here for you white boys. Willie Reed, Mississippi resident Milam, and perhaps several other people, barged into the Leflore County home of a black sharecropper named Moses Wright. You are not going to permit the NAACP to control your state. But history holds these three accountable. Milam, showed up armed at the rural Leflore County home of Till's great-uncle, Mose Wright, looking for the youth. AP/Wide World Photos Milam, left, and Roy Bryant, right, sit with their wives in a courtroom in 1955. Milam Bryant Scratch:We took him and we was just gonna whip him, scare some sense into him. Historic Films Willie Reed, Mississippi Resident:I could hear all this beatin' and I could hear this beatin' and I could here this cryin' and cryin' and beatin', and I'm saying to myself, "They beatin' somebody up there." J.W. But it did happen. Roy, Carolyn and J. W. became celebrities. Edwin King Wheeler Parker:We all got a-scared and someone said, "She's going to get a pistol." You could hold your head up in Chicago. The trial opened in September 1955, and the international press flooded the courtroom. Tuko.co.ke featured an informative article about the Somali Canadian singer that has disappeared from the limelight for quite some time. There was an almost irrational fear of black men as if every black man was ready to attack or rape a white woman if you gave him a chance. On January 24, 1956, they confessed their crime in a paid interview with Look magazine. Television networks chartered a plane to send footage to New York for the nightly news. Carolyn testified under oath, but outside the presence of the jury, that Emmett said "ugly remarks" to her before whistling. Bill Minor In some sections of the state there is a preponderance of colored citizens. Mrs. Bryant: I feel fine. The jury foreman said the deciding factor was the states' failure to prove the identity of the body pulled from a river near Sumner Mississippi. William Winter, former governor of Mississippi Mamie Till:Those words were like arrows sticking all over my body. Richard Heard, Emmett Till's classmate Stock Footage, Interview with Milam & Bryant after the Verdict:Interviewer: How do you folks feel now that it's all over? The Associated Press fielded queries from Paris, Copenhagen, Tokyo. I wouldn't get any help carrying this load. Emmett's mother decides to have an open casket funeral. The three defendants in the case, Roy Bryant, Carolyn Bryant, and J.W. Roy Bryant and J.W. Narrator:Emmett rode the Illinois Central 16 hours out of Chicago to the Mississippi Delta. Wheeler Parker:The concern for Emmett was that he could be, with his fun-loving, free-spirited way of living, he could get in trouble, could have a lot of problems. But there, in the searing heat of the Delta courtroom, the 64-year old sharecropper had his say. When thetrial opened in September, the national and international press descended on the scene. Roy Bryant was reported to have passed away on 1st September 1994, in Ruleville, Sunflower County, Mississippi. You see 'em. Then we carried him to the, up to the other landin' and put him in the hearse. So when he said "Did you hear anything?" No one served time for the 1955 murder of Emmett Till. Florence Mars Their court day was in September of 1955. Wheeler Parker:It was like a nightmare. Narrator:Tallahatchie county sheriff and plantation owner Clarence Strider was responsible for locating witnesses and gathering evidence against Bryant and Milam. Milam and Bryant were acquitted in the murder of Emmett Till. Narrator:Reed spoke in a voice barely louder than a whisper. Filmed interview with William Bradford Huie conducted for America, They Loved You Madly, a precursor to Eyes on the Prize. Are Roy Bryant and J.W. Narrator:Scores of reporters descended on the Delta. Roy Bryant (far . Narrator:With Sheriff Strider and courtroom sentiment clearly on the side of the defendants, reporters began their own desperate search for witnesses. Milam and had been seen washing blood from Milam's truck, disappeared. Sumner, Mississippi: Co-defendant J.W. Carolyn also stated that she couldnt utter the unprintable word he had used. Donham has stayed out of the public eye in the nearly 15 years since her interview with Tyson. Interviewer: Thank you very much. Milam, kidnapped the 14-year-old boy from his great-uncle's house. Mamie Till's decision to hold an open-casket funeral would make her son's death a touchstone for a generation. They had two sons and lived in two small rooms in the back of the store. Black Man: I don't know whether they should or not. Natural born leader. She was her girlfriend for a long time. They were really surprised at what they found. Greg Smith, PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Milam and Roy Bryant, who confessed to Huie that they murdered Till. Interviewer: Do you have any evidence bearing on this case? Stock Footage, News Anchor Reports Till Verdict tape:In the Emmett Till Murder trial, the all white jury has acquitted the two white defendants accused of killing the 14-year-old Negro youth. Narrator:Strider consigned black reporters and Detroit Congressman Charles Diggs to a card table on the sidelines. Mamie Till:He was running up the steps to try to make it to the train and I said, "Emmett, or Beau" -- I called him Beau, I said, "Where are you going? "How old are you, preacher?" For three hours that morning we had a big old fire in the yard. Most white Americans at that time were saying things such as the Emmett Till murder had happened back in slavery times. Blacks stopped frequenting groceries owned by both the Bryant and Milam families. Gode Davis If I could go high enough, I -- things could soak into his head that, "You have to be very careful.". Outraged, Roy Bryant and his half-brother, J.W. L'Humanite If there was a group there, Emmett was in front. Stock footage of commentator on the trial:This was the home of Moses Wright. Milam. That's what he did. Wheeler Parker:We went to South, near the beginning of cotton-picking time, late August, and we picked cotton for a half a day and we would go swimming, run the snakes out the river. Narrator:Roy Bryant and J.W. Yet Northern outrage prompted many Southerners to resent outside agitators and rally in support of the suspects. I won't ever forget, it was a Sunday afternoon. Narrator:Emmett's body had been weighed down with a 75-pound cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire. Narrator:On August 31, three days after Emmett Till had disappeared, a boy fishing in the Tallahatchie noticed a body caught on a gnarled root in the muddy water. Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W Milam were accused of brutally slaying Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago. Engineered by Bob Dawson, SOUND EDITORS Mrs. Fannie Ware The two men who were acquitted of his murder were Roy Bryant and his half brother, J.W. The trial drew to a close after only five days. Get the latest on new films and digital content, learn about events in your area, and get your weekly fix of American history. Doham, who was 21 at the time of Till's murder and is now 87, was not arrested or charged in Till's lynching in 1955, but her former husband, Roy Bryant, and brother-in-law, J.W. And that's when I realized that this was a load that I was going to have to carry. He kind of scolded me for saying something like that. The two had already been tried and . Card:Mamie Till returned to Chicago, remarried, taught public school for 24 years, and continued to speak publicly about her son's murder. She stormed out. Jan. 7 2022, Published 2:46 a.m. And a push to implement the new law on school desegregation had whites from the delta to the statehouse spitting fire. Civil Rights Opponent. It was like a nightmare. Milam (far left) were charged with murder but were ultimately acquitted by an all-white jury. She joins us in discussion. Moses Wright, description of kidnapping:Sunday Morning about 2:30, I heard a voice at the door. Mamie Till Mobley Back of the house is a tool shed. Stock Footage, Man on the Street Interviews with two black men about trial:Interviewer: Young man do you think these two men should be indicted? Corbis Images Roy Bryant, with his half-brother J . Interviewer: What do you mean you don't know? Huie also discusses James Earl Ray, Edward Aaron, and white Southern . According to the interview Milam and Bryant gave to Huie, Milam killed Emmett with his . But after the acquittal, in the magazine article, Bryant and Milam described the killing. Milam and Bryant were acquitted of the murder of Emmett Till. A German bullet tore clear through his chest; his body bears "multiple shrapnel wounds." Of his medals, he cherishes one: combat infantryman's badge. Milam came out. Clara Davis:The town of Money was one street with maybe five or six stores, but that's all. Milam, abducted Till and tortured him to death. Reporters overheard members of the jury laughing and joking in the jury room. Richard Heard:It was grotesque. Corbis Motion And said they wanted the boy that did the talk at Money. I said, "It's time for us to go." Milam? Carolyn Bryant is still believed to be alive. Narrator:Mamie's decision would make her son's death a touchstone for a generation. Ernest Withers, Photographer:I had a cousin that was living in Mississippi and was walking down the sidewalk down near downtown in Tunica and didn't get off the sidewalk and the man slapped him and knocked him off the sidewalk. Warren Hampton, Mississippi resident He gained popularity because of the brutal murder of Emmett Till. Ah, it is, 'yes, ma'am' and 'no, ma'am', 'yes, sir' and 'no, sir'. I saw him he had khaki pants on, had a green nylon shirt, and a .45 on his side. White Woman: I'm almost convinced that the very beginning of this was by a communistic front. Damn if that nigger didn't have crepe sole shoes. He was born on January 24, 1931, and died in September 1994 of cancer. The pair confessed in a magazine interview the following year, while protected . Narrator:After he testified, Wright left his cotton blooming in the field, his old car sitting at the station, and slipped onto the train to Chicago. - The graves of Roy Bryant & J.W. Magnolia Cooksey-Mathious:And as we were led into the church, my girlfriends and myself, we walked up to the casket and it was covered with a glass and we all looked down; this was our friend laying lookin' like a monster. Notes taken during your interview are added to your application for review. Interviewer: And you don't know whether they should be indicted? What happened to Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, received notoriety for the alleged murder of a 14-year-old Black youth named Emmett Louis Till. Mr. Rayner asked me, he said "Do you want me to touch the body up?" Apart from it, he is an owner of a grocery store. "When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before.". Wasn't much, wasn't really a town. Wright later claimed he could feel the blood boil in hundreds of white people in the courtroom. Two of their defense attorneys helped facilitate the interview that was published in Look magazine in January 1956. That's the way I said it. They both admitted to the murder but felt justified. Milam were acquitted of the brutal murder of a 14-year-old Chicago boy named Emmett Till. He laughed. Furthermore, he was a 14-year-old Afro-Amerian boy who was from Chicago. Donham's 2007 interview, when she was 72, is being published for the first time. You couldn't seeand when they left, I was still afraid and so I'm waitin' for them to come back. And I told him I did. However, he married Vera Jo Orman later in life. They would just go into a faint. Mikro Press Robert E. Luckett Jr. John E. Allen, Inc. No one ever did time for the killing of the 14 year-old black boy from Chicago. As if this was either the last straw or maybe it was the spark. . Narrator:On September 19th, less than three weeks after Emmett's body was found, Roy Bryant and J.W. "Thar he," he said. Betty Pearson, Mississippi Resident:Part of that culture was that the women were put on pedestals and they were some sort of, ah idealization of whatever it means to be woman or to be female. There's one of his shoes here." Narrator:Mamie Till testified that the body she'd examined and buried was indeed her son. He did a few welding jobs but eventually returned to the grocery business. Stock footage of Tallahatchie River w/commentary:This is the muddy back woods Tallahatchie River where a weighted body was found alleged to be that of young Emmett Till. But I didn't accept it. Black Man: No sir. The murder trial of Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. After the murder trial, he lost his store and moved, doing various jobs over the years. This was on a Wednesday. And we've got four seats over here for you colored boys. What was the motive for their brutal acts? And he pulled away from me. Roy Bryant, an ex-soldier, owned and ran Bryant's Grocery & Meat Market in the town of Money. UCLA Film & Television Archive Stock Footage, Man on the Street Interviews with whites about trial:White Man: I can't understand how a civilized mother could put a dead body of her child on public display. William Winter:People of the socioeconomic level of the two defendants in this case were obviously looked down on by the more aristocratic ah, whites almost ah, with the same disdain that they looked down on blacks. The entire article is available on PBS, and it is quite graphic. And he was the lively one. Milam laid bare the racism that ruled Mississippi. Mississippi Department of Archives and History This situation has brought problems, it has created challenges, but most important of all, it has inspired a social system to meet the challenge. Narrator:Protected from further prosecution, Roy Bryant and J.W. LOOK Magazine, January 24, 1956. In. The Men in Black actor thrust himself . My uncle Simmie did wake up, but they told him to go back to sleep. John Malone I was trying to exaggerate. We don't know what happened to them. And he looked at me and he said, "Aw, Mama." A Supreme Court decision had struck down school segregation the year before. All rights reserved. In 1955, Mamie Till was unwillingly thrust into American history by her son's murder. Who is Roy Bryant and J.W Milam? University of Virginia Library, ON-CAMERA INTERVIEW SUBJECTS At the 1955 trial, Wright identified Roy Bryant and J.W. David T. Beito Sign up for the American Experience newsletter! The jury of 12 white men who acquitted Emmett Till's killers in 1955. From their roots in slavery to the Wild West, hippies, high fashion and hip-hop, jeans are the fabric on which the history of American ideology and politics is writ large. Milam killed Emmet Till, a murder they had been acquitted of months before in a trial. According to her, she was scared to death. And I just said, "Hell, I'm fixing to die. But they were still white folks. A high school dropout, she won two beauty contests and married Roy Bryant, an ex-soldier. Emmett Till's body is taken to Chicago's Roberts Temple Church of God for viewing and funeral services. Milam's truck out. Milam admitted having taken Emmett Till, but claimed they'd let him go. The Bryants lived with their two boys in cramped rooms behind the store. He said, "I won't need this where I'm going." ), but ain't gonna be no love nest between black and white folk. Just anything, just any excuse to acquit these two men. Akilah Kweli, SPECIAL THANKS We knew what we was going to do. On a steamy Wednesday afternoon, Emmett and seven other teenagers piled into Moses Wright's old Ford and headed to Bryant's grocery. Table of Biography [ show] Early life Roy Bryant was born on January 24, 1931, in Money, Mississippi, United States of America. William Bicket, INTERNS Narrator:Roy Bryant was out of town, leaving his wife Carolyn alone behind the counter when Emmett and his cousins pulled up. I kept on up until I got to his chin and then I -- I was forced to deal with his face. In the wee hours of . They had two sons and lived in two small rooms in the back of the store. Mamie Till:I thought that pretty soon the crowd would die down. Willie Reed, Mississippi Resident:And I was in the cotton field and I was pickin', I was pickin' cotton, pickin' cotton, and I looked across the field and there was about seven or eight peoples comin' across the field towards me, was white and black comin' that way. This program was produced by WGBH Boston, During the trial, the families arrived with their sons dressed in their Sunday best,Roy and J.W. Columbus Short's bio: partner, net worth, children, what happened. Jerry Mitchell Be the first to get hottest news from our Editor-in-Chief, Check your email and confirm your subscription. They brought their children, picnic baskets and ice cream cones. Ah, they had the ceiling fans that were only stirring the air up, making it hotter when it reached your body. And he got up, and instead of killin' the white man like he wanted, he just start walkin' and never stopped until he got to Memphis and never stopped until he got up to Chicago. Discover short videos related to roy bryant interview on TikTok. In 1955, Carolyn Bryant Donham (then just Carolyn Bryant), a 21-year-old white woman, accused Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy, of making an unwelcome advance at her. Black Man: You're welcome. Narrator:Mainstream newspapers and magazines spread the story of the 14-year-old black boy who'd been brutally killed for whistling at a white woman. Mamie Till:I let them know that Mississippi was not Chicago. Moses Newson, Journalist:A lot of leadership was going around making outrageous threats and claiming they weren't going to obey the law and that sort of thing. In their cross-examination, Bryant and Milam's attorneys peppered her with hostile questions, and then presented the main argument for the defense: The corpse pulled from the Tallahatchie River was not Emmett Till. Is Roy Bryant still alive? Author and historian Timothy Tyson interviewed Bryant as part of his research for the book The Blood of Emmett Till back in 2008, and some of. Out washing J.W. Hilary Goldstein Donham's husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother JW Milam were tried on murder charges about a month after the teenager was killed, but an all-white Mississippi jury acquitted them. Some reporters talked about Roy and Carolyn's "handsome looks" and J. W.'s tall stature and big cigars. Milam I come at ya'. When Roy and J. W. returned, one of the kids at the scene told them what had occurred. A triumphant Bryant is seen smoking a cigar as Carolyn . In the early morning hours of August 28, 1955, Roy Bryant, his half-brother, J.W. J.W. So, what is the singer's story, and where does he live today? He visited a grocery store called Bryant's Grocery, which was owned by Donham and her husband Roy Bryant, both of whom were white. He said, "I got a writ for you. And I think it was probably more than anything else, in terms of the mass civil rights movement, the spark that, that launched it. William Winter, former Mississippi Governor:The Till Case held the whole system up for inspection by the rest of the country and by the rest of the world. It was in a curve in a drift and a foot was stickin' up and we tore into the drift and got to him and, you know, got him out. Clarence Strider Jr.:People are used to doin' thang normal around here. Rebekah Suggs. Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi Rev. The 235-pound Milam was a hard drinking man with a reputation for being tough on anyone who got in his way. Mamie Till:And I decided then that I would start at his feet and work my way up, maybe gathering strength as I went. Tracye A. Matthews, ARCHIVAL FILM Emmett's death was the opening of the Civil Rights movement. . Take this." So I told 'em what I saw. Till offended Donham in some way, though accounts of the events differ. And it made an awful lot of people realize that they themselves had to get involved and do something. I mean, it touched us all. I just in my mind I kept sayin', "I'll see him again," you know. Today a situation exists in Mississippi that is unlike the situation in most states in the nation. During the 1950s, the couple ran a small grocery, Bryant's Grocery & Meat Market, that sold provisions to black sharecroppers and their children. James E. Dunford An only child, young Mamie was the hope of her family of former sharecroppers. Moses Newson, journalist, CONSULTANTS I can remember when my father died, Sammy, the black man who worked for him was there and I threw my arms around his neck. Narrator:Two days into the trial, reporters got a lead on a young sharecropper named Willie Reed who might be willing to talk. Roy Bryant died of cancer 13years later. So we're talkin' about a way of life that in this part of the country that was enforced by law. The murder trial of Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Here's what you should know about the movie, 7 Inspiring Benefits of Breastfeeding Your Child: "Reduce Risks of Diseases", Lufthansa closes in on stake in Italy's ITA Airways, Will Smith Accepts Invite from Daring Zanzibari High Divers: "I'm on My Way", Who are Queen Naija's parents? Narrator:On August 19th, Mamie gave Emmett the ring that had belonged to his father. "The life of a Negro in Mississippi," one European paper observed, "is not worth a whistle." Hailing from Indianola, Mississippi, Carolyn Bryant was a high school drop out who married Roy Bryant, an ex-soldier. Carolyn Bryant testified under oath that Emmett said ugly remarks to her before whistling. Willie Reed:Well, when you walked in that courtroom and you know what you -- that you're going testify. Clenora Hudson-Weems I would wear flared skits with the crinoline underneath, you must have the crinoline. Stock Footage, Mamie Till Arrives at Trial News Conference:Interviewer: What do you intend to do here today? She stated that Till had grabbed her and verbally threatened her. Robert E. Luckett, Jr. Chicago Burr Oak Cemetery Everybody knew we were under attack and that attack was symbolized by the attack on a 14-year-old boy. Hailing from Indianola, Mississippi, Carolyn Bryant was a high school drop out who married Roy Bryant, an ex-soldier. "Did you see anything?" He informed Tallahatchie County sheriff Clarence Strider. Bryant and Milam had already been rounded up as murder suspects, and Southern papers were decrying the "savage crime." ", Mamie Till:As the jury retired, the black people who were standing around the walls began to ease out of the door. Narrator:In the 75 years before Emmett Till set foot in Mississippi, more than 500 black people had been lynched in the state. Gerald Chatham Warren Hampton, Mississippi Resident:I was playin' beside the road and I saw Mr. Milam in the truck coming by and it had a, had a cover over the door, we called a tarpaulin, and I heard somebody hollerin' on the truck. Milam turned to Moses Wright. Oudie Brown:Said, "J.W., I got a writ for ya." Most were men who had been accused of associating with white women. Howard and author Devery Anderson each concluded that Roy Bryant learned of what happened at the store from someone other than his wife. Richard Heard, Classmate:When we first met, we were in gym in Mr. Long's gym period. 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