1. What new information did you learn about the Emmett Till case that you did not know before?
2. What details of the story were most disturbing to you? Other than the photos of the body, what images will stay with you?
3. How was the Emmett Till case important in helping the Civil Rights movement?
4. How does the idea of double-jeopardy come into play with this case? How does it show some of the injustices of the legal system?
5. What do you think would have been the most difficult thing(s) about living in the south during the pre-Civil Rights Era? What group of people do you think still have the hardest time dealing with prejudice today--why?
3 comments:
1. I didnt know anything about the Emmett Till case.
2A. They werent worried about kidnapping the boy and killing the boy. The way they chained a cotton gin fan to his neck with barbed wire. How badly they beat the boy.
2B. The baby picture of Emmett Till will stay with me.
3. It made black people realize that white people werent treating them right and that they should do something about it.
4A. When he is proven not-guilty they will not be able to charge him with the same crime again.
4B. People that were guilty were set free.
5A. I think that having everything segregated and having people disappear would be difficult to live with.
5B. Arabs have a hard time dealing with prejudice today because people classify them as terrorists even if they are not terrorists.
Patrick Simoneit
1. I did not know much about the case before we started it. Everything that we talked about was pretty much new to me. I learned a lot and found it kinda disturbing.
2. The most disturbing was how they killed the boy, for something that wasn't even bad. They just did it for the sake of doing it. And the image that will stay with me the most is the picture of Till's mother sitting next to his open casket, crying.
3. It was important because it showed everybody what was really happening behind "closed doors". It shook the country to find out how bad things really were.
4. No matter what the verdict was there was going to be an uproar in America. And this case go's to show how bad the law was back then. That white people could get away with whatever they wanted.
5. The most hardest..well I don't think there is one. If you were black everything for you was hard back then. I think southerners do because of the past. Everyone still pictures south people as racist people who don't like black people no matter what.
1. I didn't know anything about Emmett Till.
2. The most disturbing was how he was fourteen,kidnapped and murdered for something so stupid. The image that will stay with me is when everybody was around his casket looking at him.
3. It showed people what happened to people just because of their color or race. And that they should do something about it.
4. When they was proven not guilty they couldn't be charged with the same crime twice. The guilty were set free.
5. Everything was segregated and it was hard for blacks. People down south still have it the hardest because some white people are still prejudice and hate blacks with a passion.
-Mirita M.
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