"How free can you be if you really aceept that white folks are the traffic cops of your life? "-Kiese Laymon
MONEY
MISSISSIPPI DELTA
Bryant's Grocery
Money is a unicorporated Delta community near Greenwood, which became known as the place of Emmett Till's murder.
Bryant's Grocery & Meat Market was a store in the 1950's in which Roy and Carolyn Bryant lived and conducted their business.
On August 21, 1955 Emmett Till arrived in Money, Mississippi to visit his uncle. Three days later, he went to Bryant's Grocery to purchase candy, where he allegedly (recently found as untrue) whistled at Carolyn Bryant.
On August 28, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam kidnapped Emmett Till from his Uncle's home and took him to Shurden Plantation in Sunflower County where they beat, and shot him. They attached a 75 pound gin fan to his body with barberd wire and dropped him into the Tallahatchie River, where it was found three days later.
Emmett Till's mother Mamie Till held an open casket funeral in Chicago. On September 19, Milam and Bryant were identified as the kidnappers and Mamie Till testified that the body was her son's. On September 23, both men were acquited by a jury of twelve white men after only 67 minutes.
This event led to the the outrage of many Americans and also became a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.
"I thought of Emmett TIll and when the bus driver ordered me to move to the back, i just couldnt move".
-Rosa Parks