Mary Sanchez: What’s justice for Emmett Till in 2022?
Emmett Till is as relevant today as when the 14- year-old was brutally murdered, nearly 67 years ago in 1955.. This isn’ t because a needle-in-a-haystack search of dusty old files recently turned up an unserved warrant. Emmett was a cherub-faced, gregarious boy from Chicago who one summer visited beloved relatives in the Mississippi Delta.
Emmett Till is as relevant today as when the 14-year-old was brutally murdered, nearly 67 years ago in 1955.
This isn’t because a needle-in-a-haystack search of dusty old files recently turned up an unserved warrant. The document names the woman who may well have set the believed killers (one of whom was her then-husband) toward Emmett.
Don’t know the story? These days, a shocking number of people do not.
Emmett was a cherub-faced, gregarious boy from Chicago who one summer visited beloved relatives in the Mississippi Delta. He returned home to his mother as a horrifically disfigured corpse in a casket. No one was ever convicted in the case.
Emmett’s plight has alternately mortified and energized people for decades, often after
