Editing Roy Bryant (section)

== The Murder==
When Till arrived to Mississippi, he and his cousin decided to skip church and went to Bryant's Grocery and Meat Department to get candy. After Emmett had shown a picture of his school from Chicago, Illinois, to a group of local children, one of the children dared Emmett to enter into the store, even though it would violate the [[Jim Crow laws]]. Emmett accepted the challenge, and went in.

Variations of what Emmett did in the store have been heavily disputed. Some say he wolf-whistled at her, some said he said "Bye, baby" to her as he left the store, or some say that he grabbed her by the arm and asked her out on a date. Whatever the reason, Carolyn Bryant (Roy's wife) stated that he grabbed her by the waist and said unspeakable words to her. When Roy discovered what Emmett supposedly did to his wife, he planned on teaching Till a lesson.

On August 28<sup>th</sup>, 1955, Roy, his half-brother [[J.W. Milam|J. W. Milam]], and a third man, and a woman arrived at Mose Wright's house between 2:00-3:30 a. m. They proceed to knock on the door, and then questioned Wright on if he had three boys in the house. When Mose takes them to see the children, they immediately asked Emmett if he was the one who did the talking to Roy's wife, he responded that he did, and they tell him to get dressed. They were offered money by Till's great-aunt if they let him go, but they didn't respond to her offer.

They then put Emmett in the back of a pickup truck and took him over to the Clint Shurden Plantation in Drew, Mississippi. They then proceeded to pistol-whip the young man, and he was placed in the back of the pickup truck once again and they also put a tarpaulin over his body. He was also believed to have been taken to Milam's shed in Glendora and was beaten again. Witnesses had reported on hearing screaming that was coming from the shed. Emmett was then taken to the Tallahatchie River and was shot. Roy and his brother then began the process of weighing his body with 70-pound cotton gin which was tied around his neck with barbed wire. Till's gruesomely mutilated body was later discovered along the side of the river three days later.

At the wishing of Till's mother, Emmett's funeral was open-casket. Thus, the world was given the nightmarish image of Emmett's swollen, disfigured body.