For the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., Emmett Till isn't just a historical figure: He was a best friend and a cousin.
where 14-year-old Emmett supposedly whistled at a white woman before he was kidnapped and murdered.
He and Emmett had been excited to visit family in the rural town of Money, Mississippi, about halfway between Memphis, Tennessee, and Jackson. It wasn’t supposed to be an easy vacation: The boys would be expected to pick cotton alongside their other cousins. Emmett’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, had said she taught Emmett to whistle to work through his stutter, Parker said.But that whistle was enough to make Parker and their friends “scared to death” in Jim Crow-era Mississippi. The kids decided to go home and not tell Parker’s grandfather what happened.“What he did, I know, was a death wish at that time. They protected the system, and still do today,” Parker said of people and agencies in positions of power.
When Emmett’s body was found and the pivotal open-casket funeral took place at Bronzeville’s Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ, Parker felt like he was in a film.Chicago church where thousands viewed Emmett Till’s open casket is named to list of nation’s most endangered places“This is not him. That’s not Emmett right there,” he remembered thinking, feeling no remorse or sadness.
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