Before the Milams

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Emmett Till was a bright child, Jw Milam and Roy Bryant took the life of a innocent child and tried burying him in Mississippi.
       His mother wanted his body shipped back to Chicago so she could immediately identify him.

    Mamie Till was determined too open the box, he was in at least she got a hammer and opened the box and when she saw his body she immediately wanted people to see what she saw .
She wanted his picture taken, so it could be in JET magazine, TIME Magazine had over 100 photos of his body. She didn't want any his body retouched but immediately wanted his pictures seen and his body seen in public .
She wanted people to see how much of a monster racism looked like .

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