Greetings, Class Community.
We watched a documentary and discussed The Emmett Till Case of 1955. There are a few questions I would like you to consider and discuss in our digital class space.
Please respond to the following questions:
1. Do you recognize discussions about The Great Migration and sundown towns being connected to the life, murder, and subsequent trial regarding Emmett Till? If so, what are those connections and how would you summarize the cause and effect relationship?
2. Do you recognize our discussions about the miscegenation, 'racial purity' and 'erotic' freedom being connected to the life, murder, and subsequent trial regarding Emmett Till? If so, what are those connections and how would you summarize the cause and effect relationship of those terms and this event?
3. How do you think 'new' technologies, such as the television, impacted the public reaction to the life, murder, and subsequent trial regarding Emmett Till? Please explain in a short paragraph of at least three sentences.
The links to the Emmett Till Documentaries:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvijYSJtkQk - this is a much more personal documentaries
Wanting to pursue a legal career down the road I find the case of Emmett Till to be super fascinating. It sounds like a movie. Such violence. Its as if these white men want to assert their dominance and frustration of their lives on a little boy trying to show off for his friends. They deserved the death penalty but instead got to live their lives. It's sickening, but it wants me to pursue a career in law, so that I may stop these type of people to slip out of such a horrid situation and make them face the consequences.
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