
Emmet Till
He is often called "The Sacrificial Lamb of the Civil Rights Movement."
Big Milam ordered Bobo [Emmet]
to pick up the fan. He staggered under its weight... carried it to the
river bank. They stood silently... just hating one another.
Milam: "Take off your clothes."
Slowly, Bobo pulled off his shoes, his socks. He stood up, unbuttoned
his shirt, dropped his pants, his shorts. He stood there naked. It was
Sunday morning, a little before 7.
Milam: "You still as good as I am?" Bobo: "Yeah." Milam: "You still 'had' white women?" Bobo: "Yeah."
That big .45 jumped in Big Milam's hand. The youth turned to catch that
big, expanding bullet at his right ear. He dropped.
They barb-wired the gin fan to his neck, rolled him into 20 feet of
water....
The Confession of Big Milam from The American Experience, Special
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