File:Mose Wright pointing to J W Milam in the murder trial of Emmett Till.jpg
Mose_Wright_pointing_to_J_W_Milam_in_the_murder_trial_of_Emmett_Till.jpg (288 × 300 pixels, file size: 28 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
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Mose Wright stands and points to J. W. Milam, a white man accused of kidnapping and murdering Wright's 14-year-old great-nephew Emmett Till, during the murder trial in Sumner, Mississippi, September 1955. |
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Original photographer Ernest Withers from The Chicago Defender. Scanned from Whitfield, Stephen (1991). A Death in the Delta: The story of Emmett Till, JHU Press. ISBN 080184326X photo insert page 6.
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The image illustrates an historic moment in civil rights and Mississippi history when 64-year-old Mose Wright, whose home was invaded by J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant for the purpose of taking his great-nephew Emmett Till, stood to identify Milam in court. Milam and Bryant had threatened to kill Wright the night they took Till. Blacks in the Mississippi Delta region had virtually no legal rights. Wright was himself a sharecropper. His act of identifying Milam in court was noted by reporters and others who were present to be something a black person had never done in Mississippi, and that it was "an epiphany in the eclipse of Jim Crow in the Deep South", according to Whitfield. Wright left the state because of his testimony, living the rest of his life in Chicago. |
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