When reading the “The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi”, a line that really stood out to me was when Milam say “When we got to that gin, it was daylight, and I was worried for the first time….
In this article, Carolyn Holloway Bryant is described as a girl. The article says she is 21 years old, and is 5 feet tall and weights 103 pounds. This is contrasted with how they describe Emmett Till. Although he is…
When reading “The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi,” the line that stuck out the most to me was when Milam said, “They had just filled him so full of that poison that he was hopeless.” From the very…
The Martin and Till cases have both caused an uproar in the African American community. In both cases, an unarmed young black man becomes the target for an apparent hate crime. The articles claim that officials are not sure whether…
I cried during my first reading of “The Shocking Story of Approved Killing In Mississippi” by William Bradford Huie. I cried again on the second read. Huie tells the maddening story of evil in a way I was not prepared…
In “The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi,” Huie primarily offers the bare facts of the murder of Emmet Till with more careful attention given to vital components such as the weapons utilized, locations visited, and timing within the…
Although the side-by-side method is essentially comparing and contrasting 2 texts, I found a notable parallel that seems to encompass all the readings. The connection is how knowledge, or lack of understanding, is used to both define a monster and…
At the end of text, it says “Lawyers are arguing that his inaccurate statement was caused by fear, mistrust, and confusion.” However, a lot of people have questioned this saying. From the 11st paragraph to the 23th paragraph explains the…
I am not sure why we find out Trayvon Martin had “…been there for seven days, after being suspended for the third time from Dr. Michael M. Krop High School in Miami, in this instance, for 10 days after drug residue was…
There are some differences in the details of the two cases of Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin. According to Huie’s article, Milam was a plantation owner, who said to “…like niggers”, but only if they stay “- in their place”….