IGCSE history (USA)

Cards (1)

  • Murder of Emmett Till info
    - Black teenage boy accused of wolf whistling/flirting with Carolyn Bryant (white woman) in shop in Southern state of Mississippi --> lynched by her husband (Bryant) and his half brother (Milam)
    - Open casket --> media attention, advocating of atrocity
    - Bryant and Milam put on trial & found not guilty, later confessed to crime but not trialed as cannot be trialed twice