Children Quote by Bernice McFadden

“Some aweful things happened to a Negro kid named Emmett Till, and I was right in the middle of it,smack in the heart of…

— Chris Crowe

“Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out…

— Lewis Nordan

“Things have come a long way in Mississippi. That’s the usual shorthand. Perhaps nowhere else in America has made more progress in its race…

— Richard Grant

“The boy didn't know where he and his family were, other than one name: Mississippi.”

— Larry Brown

“Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. H. Jackson Brown Jr.”

— Les Parrott III

“He was away in a mystery, locked in the enigma that young Southern Black boys start to unravel, start to try to unravel, from…

— Maya Angelou

“and sure enough, emmett's voice rose above the din. at some point, though, a mistake becomes a decision, whether you like it or not.…

— Amanda Eyre Ward

In talking about the [Emmett Till murder trial], you have to repeat the atmosphere. This is Mississippi in 1955, with a long history of…

— Charles Diggs

“She’d decided a stranger had walked into the community and violated it, sliced into her world, taken her child away from her. Too much…

— Amanda Kyle Williams

“Surely slavery was not tolerated in Kentucky, surely not in Lexington, which the captain so often called the Beautiful City. Everything would be different…

— David Dick

“Nobody counted on Garner dying. Nobody thought he could. How ’bout that? Everything rested on Garner being alive. Without his life each of theirs…

— Toni Morrison

And the fact that Emmett Till, a young black man, could be found floating down the river in Mississippi, as, indeed, many had been…

— Fred Shuttlesworth