Eyewitness to kidnapping of Emmett Till hasn't closed his ey

LAWRENCE, Kansas – Black teenagers Wheeler Parker and Emmett Till were on vacation from Chicago when they stepped into the white-owned Mississippi Delta grocery store operated by Roy and Carolyn Bryant to buy candy in the summer of 1955. In a region saturated with influences of the Ku Klux Klan and in rural towns organized […] The post Eyewitness to kidnapping of Emmett Till hasn’t closed his eyes to quest for racial justice appeared first on New Hampshire Bulletin.

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