They live in the back of the store which Roy's brothers helped set up when he got out of the 82nd Airborne in 1953. The couple have two boys, three and two and they operate a store at a dusty crossroads called Money: post office, filling station and three stores clustered around a school and a gin, and set in the vast, lonely cotton patch that is the Mississippi Delta.Ĭarolyn and Roy Bryant are poor: no car, no TV. An Irish girl, with black hair and black eyes, she is a small farmer's daughter who, at 17, quit high school at Indianola, Miss., to marry a soldier, Roy Bryant, then 20, now 24. Here are the facts.Ĭarolyn Holloway Bryant is 21, five feet tall, weighs 103 pounds. Now, hypocrisy can be exposed myth dispelled. Of the murder trial, the Memphis Commercial Appeal said: "Evidence necessary for convicting on a murder charge was lacking." But with truth absent, hypocrisy and myth have flourished. In November, in Greenwood, a grand jury declined to indict them for kidnapping. Last September in Sumner, Miss., a petit jury found the youth's admitted abductors not guilty of murder. The editors of Look are convinced that they are presenting here, for the first time, the real story of that killing - the story no jury heard and no newspaper reader saw.ĭisclosed here is the true account of the slaying in Mississippi of a Negro youth named Emmett Till. The recent slaying of Emmett Till in Mississippi is a case in point.
Milam at their 1955 trial The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in MississippiĮditors Note: In the long history of man's inhumanity to man, racial conflict has produced some of the most horrible examples of brutality.
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