August 27, 200719 yr Let's not see who can post the most graphic picture please. If you are referring to my post I just want to say that I did not try to post "the most graphic picture". I'm pretty sure that just about everybody who sees that picture will know EXACTLY who it is & why it happened.
August 27, 200719 yr If you are referring to my post I just want to say that I did not try to post "the most graphic picture". I'm pretty sure that just about everybody who sees that picture will know EXACTLY who it is & why it happened.I'm referring to several pictures of a graphical nature. I don't want this turning into a competition. Pictures may be deleted or this thread may be closed if it becomes a problem.
August 27, 200719 yr Why is the catcher smiling? I wouldn't be after taking a hit like that Sometimes clenching your teeth together just before a vicious hit, resembles smiling.:thumb:
August 27, 200719 yr Emmett Till. That's a rough one. Is that the crime that the movie "Mississippi Burning" is based upon?
August 27, 200719 yr Is that the crime that the movie "Mississippi Burning" is based upon? Mississippi Burning is a 1988 film based on the investigation into the real-life murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. The murders of James Chaney, a 21-year-old black man from Meridian, Mississippi, Andrew Goodman, a 20-year-old Jewish anthropology student from New York, and Michael Schwerner, a 24-year-old Jewish social worker also from New York, helped symbolize the dangers of the civil rights movement as part of what became known as "Freedom Summer."
August 27, 200719 yr Is that the crime that the movie "Mississippi Burning" is based upon? Emmett Till was a boy who was beaten beyond recognition then had a cotton gin fan strapped around his neck and thrown into a lake. His crime? Allegedly whistling at a white woman.
August 27, 200719 yr Emmett Till was a boy who was beaten beyond recognition then had a cotton gin fan strapped around his neck and thrown into a lake. His crime? Allegedly whistling at a white woman. Till arrived on August 21. On August 24, he joined other teenagers as they went to Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market to get some candy and soda. The teens were children of sharecroppers and had been picking cotton all day. The market was owned by a husband and wife, Roy Bryant and Carolyn Bryant, and mostly catered to the local sharecropper population. Till's cousin and several black youths, all under 16, were with Till in the store. Till had shown them photos of his life back home, including one of him with his friends and girlfriend, a white girl. The boys didn't believe that he had a white girlfriend and dared him to talk to a white woman in the shop. As Till was leaving the store, he said "Bye, baby," to Carolyn Bryant, a married white woman. She stood up and stormed to her car. The boys were terrified thinking she might return with a pistol and ran away. The news of this greatly angered her husband when he heard of it upon his return from out of town several days later. Till's cousin, Wheeler Parker, Jr., who was with him at the store, claims Till did nothing but whistle at the woman. "He loved pranks, he loved fun, he loved jokes ... in Mississippi, people didn't think the same jokes were funny." Carolyn Bryant later asserted that Till had grabbed her at the waist and asked her for a date. She said the young man also used "unprintable" words. He had a slight stutter and some have conjectured that Bryant might have misinterpreted what Till said. By the time 24-year-old Roy Bryant returned from a road trip three days after his wife’s encounter with Till, it seemed that everyone in Tallahatchie County had heard about the incident, in every conceivable version. Bryant decided that he and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, 36, would meet at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday to "teach the boy a lesson."
August 28, 200719 yr Sure that wasn't 1937? You're probably right, I was to lazy to look it up for sure.
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