BLACK IN TIME: A Moment In OUR History

What an awesome legacy!

Just want to thank EVERYONE for your Comments and Feedback, regarding this post!!! I sincerely appreciate the responses.

Like all of you, I believe it's important to keep alive, the stories of OUR people. I hope you'll continue to read and provide comments on my future blog posts.

PEACE & BLESSINGS,
Hugh

Ameen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love your postings Brother Gaddy. Keep them coming!!!

Yes!!! Yes!!! and Yes!!!!

Telling the stories keeps them alive.

Oh... You wanted to hear my comment..... smile....
After Emmit Till was beat and killed, I believe it was MR. Evers who notified NAACP Headquarters of the Murder. Shortly after his death... Rosa Parks was arrested, and the started the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Mr. Evers was VERY INVOLVED with the Till Murder...I had the honor of working with his brother, Charles, for 10 years, when I lived in Mississippi. Got so much insight into that case...

WOW... tell me did he whistle at the lady or did he call her "baby" or something to that fact?

ooooGaddy, I got sooo many questions

Cynthia, my father has a copy of the Jet magazine documenting Emmitt Till's funeral (which he got from my great-grandmother). I used it for a Black History project in college once, and in the magazine his mother shared that Emmitt suffered from a stuttering problem as a child. In an attempt to cure his condition, she would order her son to whistle when he felt himself stuttering. So one the day Emmitt went to Money and was trying to tell the lady what we wanted from the grocery store he whistled and she assumed he was flirting with her. So she got mad about that and called her family members and that's how they ended up beating and murdering him.

Also let me say that Jet magazine photo brings back a lot of painful memories...

Here's an article on it:
http://schools.wikia.com/wiki/Emmett_Till

tHANKS Siebra.. I checked it out... Very nice

This is a story... that should be studied in public schools...

Hello to All,

All you ghettobilly Negroes taken solace in the past and totally empty headed about the future.

When a people are in a dilemma such as were the children of Israel and Black Americans you only have one choice to make. Either you live in the past or you want a prosperous future.

On the other hand, when it is our right to live in the past is when you have secured your present in the prognosis of your future is tremendously good.

We, Black Americans are mentally dead people since we take joy in our tragic past, am I right.

What say you?

This is a timeless and a great post just as every bit of BIA is very important,because it is all linked to evey thing that was passed before this leader/that event in African-American history. for example, the name Emmitt Till is tied to back then as a great part of the first Klan's man found guilty(and how he came to face his crime committed so many years ago) as this to is tied to the first Black president in tis country.

This is why this is so very great for us as a race in this battle to just survive for the next generation of fartheer CHANGE, because YES WE DID...much love to all of us in this effort to pass on our history in America as one to be p-r-o-u-d of always(smile)