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Emmett Till — Part 1

249 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Emmett Till · 245 pages OCR'd
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be _ bic b6 b7C b6 b7C LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE [___}eecatted a ring that Till had wom and had allowed [ro wear for a while. After!” __retumed the ring, Till constantly wore it, never taking it off.57- 8 . [ On the Saturday following the incident at Bryant's Grocery & Meat Market| __| Till, Maurice Wright(___———_—ipndd others went into Greenwood, Mississippi. After returning home, everyone went to bed 7 | and Maurice Wright sleeping in the same bed. [__ woke to voices and someone was asking about "a fat boy from Chicago, and ah...I said oh my goodness... "i the first thing I said, I’m — I’m getting ready to die.” Two men came into his bedroom, “when they stepped in there I saw that pistol and their flashlight...” «I remember them saying they looking for a ‘fat boy, and at that timf | and Emmett was kind of chunky, so they passed on by and they went to the next room...” “. mi could hear ‘em talking, and I can’t remember exactly what the conversation was, I—I think I remember one thing he wanted to put his socks and — ah...he was saying yes and no, yeah, no, and they was cursing, they were very upset over that...” After the . men took Till, there was silence in the house and “nobody talked to | anybody.” 89,90, FE | es | did not awaken during the incident and did not hear or see any of the events that transpired. [_advisea thaf | Mose Misc 0/3 LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE = This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FAI and is leaned to your agency, it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
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