Sixty-Six Years Ago …
It was sixty-six years ago today that a 14-year-old boy, Emmett Till, was brutally murdered for the crime of being Black in a town called Money, Mississippi. You all know the story, but allow me to just quickly refresh your memories …
Emmett was from ‘up north’ in Chicago, but his mother had sent him to Mississippi to spend the final two weeks of summer with his beloved grandfather before returning to school. One day he went into a small store to buy some candy and as the cashier returned his change, his hand accidentally and briefly touched hers. That, my friends, was all it took to get this young man killed.
