Reblogged from Our Black Ancestry:
On this day in 1955, an innocent young man named Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman. This event embodied all that was wrong with America in that day on the subject of race.
On this same day in 1963, Rev. Martin Luther King delivered his famous "Dream" speech before an unprecedented congregation of people in Washington, D.C.
Things We should know.
September 27, 2012 at 1:07 pm
My God…Everytime I see that picture, I cringe and my heart weeps. To kill anyone, let alone a boy is disgusting, especially because of the color of his skin. And the perpetrators call themselves “men”? The saddest part is that I don’t think many people realize that we have a long way to go before racism is truly even halfway destroyed.