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Subject: happy? - Aug 28 (murder of Emmett Till) From: Abby Sale Date: 28 Aug 05 - 09:17 AM Money, Mississippi, 8/28/1955: Roy Bryant and JW Milam kidnap, torture and murder Emmett Louis Till for whistling at Bryant's wife. (Till was born in Chicago July 25, 1941.) With world-wide attention, Milam and Bryant confess and are duly acquitted by the good Mississippy jury. Never heard the song? No surprise; it's awful. But at least it exists to commemorate this obscene nuget of history. Copyright © 2005, Abby Sale - all rights reserved What are Happy's all about? See Clicky |
Subject: RE: happy? - Aug 28 (murder of Emmett Till) From: michaelr Date: 28 Aug 05 - 12:29 PM Amy Goodman on "Democracy Now!" did a segment on the Emmett Till murder last week. Apparently there is a new effort at prosecution of some of the people involved (there were more than just Bryant and Milam). She also played a Pacifica Archives recording of Dylan singing the song in 1962. It's less awful than more recent efforts of his! Cheers, Michael |
Subject: RE: happy? - Aug 28 (murder of Emmett Till) From: evansakes Date: 12 Mar 10 - 11:13 AM Here's a wonderful (though disturbing) film built around Ben Bedford's excellent song charting Emmett Till's short life and brutal murder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV24o6VAmG4 |
Subject: ADD: the Death of Emmett Till (Dylan) From: Joe Offer Date: 12 Mar 10 - 02:58 PM There are lyrics and a (no-longer-available) recording of Dylan's "The Death of Emmett Till" (1962) at folkarchive.de. Here are the lyrics: THE DEATH OF EMMETT TILL (Bob Dylan) 'Twas down in Mississippi not so long ago, When a young boy from Chicago walked through a Southern door. This boy's fateful tragedy you should all remember well, The color of his skin was black and his name was Emmett Till. Some men they dragged him to a barn and there they beat him up. They said they had a reason, but I disremember what. They tortured him and did some things too evil to repeat. There was screamin' sounds inside the barn, there was laughin' sounds out on the street. Then they rolled his body down a gulf amidst a blood red rain And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screamin' pain. The reason that they killed him there, and I'm sure it was no lie, Was just for the fun of killing him and to watch him slowly die. And then to stop the United States of yelling for a trial, Two brothers they confessed that they had killed poor Emmett Till. But on the jury there were men who helped the brothers commit this awful crime, And so this trial was a mockery, but nobody seemed to mind. I saw the mornin' papers but I could not bear To see the smiling brothers walking down the courthouse stairs. For the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free, While Emmett's body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea. If you can't speak out against this kind of thing, a crime that's so unjust, Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt, your mind is filled with dust. Your arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains, and your blood it must refuse to flow, For you'd let this human race fall down so God-awful low! This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan. But if all of us folks that thinks alike, if we give all we could give, We'd make this great land of ours a greater place to live. |
Subject: ADD: Land of the Shadows (song for Emmett Till) From: Joe Offer Date: 12 Mar 10 - 03:07 PM Here's the song about Emmett Till from Ben Bedford. TwickFolk posted a YouTube link above.
LAND OF THE SHADOWS (song for Emmett Till) |
Subject: RE: happy? - Aug 28 (murder of Emmett Till) From: evansakes Date: 15 Mar 10 - 09:49 AM Thanks, Joe (nice work!) HERE'S an archived BBC news video shown almost five years ago to mark the 50th anniversary (focussing on an acclaimed documentary recounting Till's story and an interview with the film-maker, Keith Beauchamp) Ben Bedford performed 'Land of the Shadows' at his debut UK gig last night.....at TwickFolk of course! |
Subject: RE: happy? - Aug 28 (murder of Emmett Till) From: Cuilionn Date: 15 Mar 10 - 10:56 AM The book and PBS series about the African-American Civil Rights Movement, "Eyes on the Prize," also features a lengthy exploration of Emmett Till's story. |
Subject: RE: happy? - Aug 28 (murder of Emmett Till) From: Felipa Date: 29 Aug 15 - 11:05 PM 60 years, unfortunately still relevant |
Subject: RE: happy? - Aug 28 (murder of Emmett Till) From: kendall Date: 30 Aug 15 - 01:31 PM I was appalled at the time, and I'm now just angry at those lard brain bastards. |
Subject: RE: happy? - Aug 28 (murder of Emmett Till) From: wysiwyg Date: 30 Aug 15 - 09:38 PM Amen |
Subject: RE: happy? - Aug 28 (murder of Emmett Till) From: GUEST,henryetta Date: 31 Aug 15 - 08:03 AM Look up the website of the Southern Poverty Law Center and make a donation. That'll help. |
Subject: RE: happy? - Aug 28 (murder of Emmett Till) From: FreddyHeadey Date: 22 Apr 24 - 10:07 AM Radio documentary by the BBC (not about any associated music) The Ballads of Emmett Till - 2019 BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast **Some listeners may find parts of this programme upsetting** Emmett Till, fourteen and black, was put on the train from Chicago by his mother Mamie in August 1955. She got his corpse back, mutilated and stinking. Emmett had been beaten, shot and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for supposedly whistling at a white woman. His killers would forever escape justice. What Mamie did next helped galvanise the Civil Rights Movement and make Emmett the sacrificial lamb of the movement. 1 hour, 9 minutes www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p070cltm |
Subject: RE: happy? - Aug 28 (murder of Emmett Till) From: GUEST Date: 22 Apr 24 - 07:47 PM Why did his mother put him on a train? |
Subject: RE: happy? - Aug 28 (murder of Emmett Till) From: FreddyHeadey Date: 22 Apr 24 - 08:05 PM Guest, He was on his holidays : "Till was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. During summer vacation in August 1955, he was visiting relatives near Money, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region. ,,," more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till |
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