A Chicago resident, he was visiting a town called (*) Money when he met Carolyn Bryant.
A controversial 2004 documentary by Keith Beauchamp examines this figure's Untold Story. James Eastland helped release military documents showing this man's father was a murderer and rapist executed by the U.S. Army. U.S. Steel was threatened with a boycott for producing a fictionalized story of this man called "Noon on Doomsday." In the essay "On Fear," William Faulkner asks just what was so frightening about this figure. A Chicago resident, he was visiting a town called (*) Money when he met Carolyn Bryant. In her memoirs, Anne Moody describes how the death of this figure caused her to hate people for the first time. Mose Wright dramatically said "Thar he" to identify this man's killers in open court. This figure's mother insisted on an open casket funeral to display his horrific wounds. For 10 points, name this black teenager, whose brutal 1955 murder in Mississippi was one of the early key moments of the civil rights movement.
A controversial 2004 documentary by Keith Beauchamp examines this figure's Untold Story.
{Emmett Till}