The 70 -year remembrance since the death of Emmet Til is being marked by family, friends and officials on Wednesday as he reiterated the train ride of the train taken from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955.
The ride was organized by the Emerat Til Interpressing Center and the National Park Conservation Association. Were from passengers Rev. Wheeler Parker Junior.Til’s cousin and the last living eyewitness to his kidnapping, his wife Dr. Marvel Parker, and Juliet Louis, widow of Sharekropper Willie Reid, who reported Till’s death and testified in the test of her killers.
The AMTRC city of New Orleans left Chicago’s union station at 8:05 pm on Wednesday after a communal prayer. It was ready to reach Greenwood, Mississippi on Thursday morning, which is inscribed 70 years after Til’s death.
Back in 1955, Rev Parker and his cousin were just teenagers. They jumped into a train together from Union Station to Mississippi to visit the family – but only one of them became alive.
In Mississippi, at that time, up to 14, at night, the nights were abducted in the dead and then a white woman was allegedly wrapped after whistle.
The parker was at home until the blonde was taken to the tip of the gun.
“They first came to me in this room,” Parker recalled in 2021. “And I was moving like a leaf on a tree.”
When Til’s badly disintegrated body was found in the Talhchi river after three days, her mother Mammy refused to allow a quick burial and instead brought her remains back to Chicago, where she emphasized an open casket funeral.
That open cascate funeral, and photos from it, which were printed in newspapers across the country, are credited with sparking the modern-day civil rights movement.
Seventy years later, Parker rode on a train with a purpose.
“There is a saying in the Bible,” Less you forget, “he said. ‘This helps us to remember. ,
As Parker rode the ride, he said it is not necessary that one should never forget.
“For one thing, 70 years ago, we did not think about what was going to happen,” the wheeler said.
What happened was that Til’s Linchers, Roy Bryant and John Millum were tried by a jury and acquitted. Woman, Caroline Bryant at the center of CT allegations, Decades later historians accepted Timothy Tyson His allegations against the teenager were false.
The wheeler said, “We are not here to enmity or hate, but to remind people how far we have come and how much progress we have made.”
While 70 years have passed, Til’s family said that the US still has treatment.
The wheeler said, “I always remind you of the grief and price he paid, but we have come a long way – and her mother’s statement was, ‘I hope she did not do in vain,” the wheeler said. “He did not die in vain.”
The family has a lot on which long train rides are reflected.
