Video Conference with the
Museum of Television and Radio
Below are some pictures taken during the conference as well as some comments and thoughts the students wanted to share.
Today, Feb. 27, 01, we had a moving conversation about the Civil Rights Movement. We went to the Edwardsville High School to have a "tele-conference" with a person(you can see in the picture) from the museum of T.V. and Radio. She talked about the death of Emit Tills, and how the murderers were found not guilty. Even though they were guilty. She also talked about the black baseball league. Sometimes they didn't take a bath for 3 days because of the prejudice hotel owners. When they wanted to eat at a restaurant they had to go in from the back and couldn't eat in the dining room.
Emit tills was a 14 year old boy from Chicago who went down to Money, Alabama to visit his grandfather in the south .He brought a picture of his white girlfriend. Some cousins dared him to talk "fresh" to a white woman. So she told her husband that Emit said "bye baby". Later that night her husband and his brother went to Emit's uncle's house. They knocked on his door and told him to come out.
They took him and shot, stabbed, and beat him to death. They found Emit's body floating in the river. After they found his body they had a big open casket funeral. They had an open casket funeral, because the family wanted to let the world see what two white men did to her son
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Then they had asked Emit`s grandfather to identify Emit`s body. After they had the trial the men confessed to a local newspaper what they did to the jury. Even though they confessed, they were not convicted of murder.
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