Emmett till Quote by Chris Crowe

“I had seen a photograph of Emmett Till's body just after it was pulled from the river. I had seen photographs of white folks…

— Alice Walker

“J.W. and Roy didn’t just snatch the childhood away from Emmett; they stole it from every single black child in Mississippi.”

— Bernice McFadden

I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till,

— Mamie Till

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

“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

“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit…

— Maya Angelou

I think the picture in Jet magazine showing Emmett Till's mutilation was probably the greatest media product in the last forty or fifty years…

— Charles Diggs

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

“Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. ~Harper Lee, To…

— Harper Lee

Trust Emmett to find the joke in the destruction of my life.

— Stephenie Meyer

“King had marched six weeks earlier through the Mississippi town where the civil rights workers Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner were murdered. He had called…

— Rick Perlstein

“Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral crookedness of yours. You may…

— W.E.B. Du Bois