August 28th 1963: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom organized by A. Philip Randolph and…
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August 28th, 1955: Emmett Till is lynched.
A Black 14-year-old accused of whistling at (or flirting with, or putting his hand around the waist of) a White woman, he was abducted, tortured, and murdered by two men who were not punished. The description propelled Till, posthumously, into the forefront of the American Civil Rights Movement.
The men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, were never convicted and publically told their story, selling it for $4,000.
The woman, Carolyn Bryant, has also not faced justice. On August 10th, 2022, a grand jury declined to indict her.
Claims that Carolyn Bryant recanted her entire story are incomplete and misleading–she now says she cannot remember the exact details, and she apparently said some of her story was false during an untaped portion of an otherwise taped interview.
August 28th, 1963: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, organized by A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, was held in Washington D.C. Keynote speaker Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his historic “I Have a Dream” speech.
August 28th 1963: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom organized by A. Philip Randolph and…