Moses Wright, who witnessed the two men abduct Till, said that they only accused Till of "talk" at the store. Milam) had been angered by Till's "ugly remarks." The sheriff never mentioned any alleged physical harassment. However, following their arrest, Sheriff George Smith only said that the alleged killers (Carolyn Bryant's husband and his half-brother, J.W. Bottom: The store as it appears in the Till movie. Top: Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market is pictured as it looked in 1955. She testified that he then followed her to the register, grabbed her around the waist, and said, "What's the matter, baby, can't you take it?" Carolyn Bryant, the white, married 21-year-old co-proprietor at the small grocery store she ran with her husband, accused Till of grabbing her hand and asking her for a date while she was stocking candy. The exact events that happened inside Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market (pictured below) are a matter of dispute.
The very same train that took him down would later bring back his body.ĭid Emmett Till try to flirt with grocery store proprietor Carolyn Bryant?Įmmett Till and his cousins skipped church where his Great Uncle Moses Wright was preaching to meet up with some other boys to go and buy candy at a small grocery store. A Till fact-check confirms that 14-year-old Emmett was on summer vacation in August 1955 when he traveled by train from Chicago to the Mississippi Delta region near the town of Money, Mississippi to visit relatives, including his great uncle, Moses Wright, and cousins.
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