BidenPresident
Verified User
He recalls the flashlights piercing the darkness as the men marched through the bedrooms searching for the “boy who did the talk at the store.” He recalls the “pure hell” of the men pulling his cousin from his bed and shouting commands at him, a 14-year-old child who had no idea who the men were or why they were dragging him from sound sleep on a summer’s night.
And outside the house, Parker recalls, “My grandfather said he heard a light voice, like a woman’s voice, who said, ‘That’s the one.’”
Emmett was the one, a White woman named Carolyn Bryant alleged, who had grabbed her at the grocery store where she worked, a false accusation that led to Emmett’s abduction and gruesome lynching, which helped to energize the nascent civil rights movement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/04/28/carolyn-bryant-accused-emmett-till/
And outside the house, Parker recalls, “My grandfather said he heard a light voice, like a woman’s voice, who said, ‘That’s the one.’”
Emmett was the one, a White woman named Carolyn Bryant alleged, who had grabbed her at the grocery store where she worked, a false accusation that led to Emmett’s abduction and gruesome lynching, which helped to energize the nascent civil rights movement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/04/28/carolyn-bryant-accused-emmett-till/