1st paragraph

• Describing what happened to Emmett

2nd paragraph

• Telling how he got treated unfairly

3rd paragraph

• Telling how everyone should be treated

In this paper, I am going to tell you how Emmett Till was treated unfairly. Emmett Till was a normal kid growing up in a middle-class black neighborhood. One day he was in a grocery store and all he did was whistle at the white woman working at the register and then four days later he was kidnapped, beat, and killed. They later found the body and shipped it to Chicago for an open casket funeral which is what his mother wanted so that many people could see what happened to Emmett all because of his skin color and whistling.

The men were arrested for a short amount of time than later in court, the all-white male jury took 67 minutes to decided the men were not guilty and had no punishments so they took them out of jail. About 4 weeks later the men admitted to killing Emmett and told magazines how they had killed him and got paid $4,000 for telling them. By the time they reopened the case in 2004 the killers were already dead. They said before they died “Emmett Till is dead why can’t he just stay dead.” They never got brought to justice and died as murderers.

I do not think Emmett Till was treated justly or fair at all. That whole story made me feel really sad that they would do something like that really all because of the color of his skin. There were a lot of beatings in those days and not all of them were recognized like this one. Even today there are still people being treated unfairly, it may not be as bad as this story but we should still recognize them and tell the people the right way to treat each other. I think everyone should be treated fair and right.