. . . LET US GO BACK TO THE TRAIN STATION FOR A MOMENT -  AND THE TRAIN WHICH IS TO CARRY EMMETT LOUIS TILL ( 1941 - 1955 / ETC ) INTO THE DEEP SOUTH ( ACCORDING TO A MEMBER OF MY FAMILY - THE TRAIN STATION WAS LOCATED AT THE CORNER OF 63TH & STONEY ISLAND ) JUST ABOUT A BLOCK & ONE HALF - FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL THAT I WAS ATTENDING ( WAS A 9TH GRADER ) AT THE TIME ( HIGH PARK HIGH SCHOOL / 1961 ) THIS LOCATION WAS BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION - AS WE WERE ON OUR WAY HOME . . . BUT - ACCORDING TO MY RESEARCH ( AUGUST 1955 ) THE TRAIN STATION IN QUESTION - WAS LOCATED AT THE CORNER OF ( 63TH & WOODLAWN ) AT ANY RATE - DEAR READERS ( THE MOTHER & HER SON - BOTH PROPHESIED ) THE REASON THEY WERE ON THEIR WAY TO THE ( 63TH STREET TRAIN STATION ) WAS BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT GOING TO GET TO THE TRAIN STATION DOWNTOWN ( IN THE LOOP ) IN TIME TO LEAVE CHICAGO - WITH THE OTHER TRAVELERS - SO THIS LITTLE FAMILY MADE A BEELINE STRAIGHT TO THE NEAREST TRAIN STATION - AVAILABLE TO THEM - WHERE EMMETT WAS GOING TO BE ABLE TO CATCH THE TRAIN - THAT WAS GOING TO TAKE HIM & HIS PEERS ( DEEMED AS HIS KINDRED & HIS TREVELING COMPARSIONS / ETC ) FOR A VISIT TO MONEY MISSISSIPPI ( UNCLE MOSES HAD ALREADY GONE ON - AHEAD OF THE YOUNGSTERS ) FOR HIS FIRST TRIP AS A YOUNG ADULT ( AGE: 14YRS OLD ) AT THIS AGE - YOUNGSTERS ARE ALWAYS OVER COME WITH EXCITEMENT - IN THAT THEY WERE GOING TO BE TREVELING ALONE ( BUT - THEY HAD COME FROM WONDERFUL FAMILY BACKGROUNDS / AND - THEY WERE WELL RAISED & COULD BE TRUSTED / THEIR BEHAVIOR WAS ABOVE REPROACH - RESPECTIVELY / ETC ) AND THE MAIN THING IS THUS - HIS MOTHER WAS AT PEACE WITH HER SON GOING ON THIS TRIP - ALONG WITH HIS FAMILY MEMBERS - AND IN SIXTEEN HOURS - THEY ALL WERE GOING TO BE TURNED OVER TO RESPONSIBLE ADULTS ( WHICH IS THE WAY THINGS WERE HANDLED IN THE OLD SOUTH ) THEREFORE - MRS TILL FELT GOOD ABOUT THIS TRIP ( THE PROPHET: EMMETT LOUIS TILL ) ONCE THEY HAD ARRIVED AT THE TRAIN STATION - HIS MOTHER PARKS THE FAMILYS VEHICLE & THEY GET OUT - THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DO SOME WALKING AT THIS POINT - IN ORDER TO GET TO THE STAIRCASE - THAT CARRIES TRAIN PASSENGERS UPWARD & BRING THEM DOWNWARD - THE STAIRCASE IS DESIGNED WITH A PLATFORM ( MIDWAY UPWARDS ) AND SO - AFTER A FEW STEPS ON THIS PLATFORM - PASSENGERS WILL BE TAKING THE SECOND STAIRCASE - UPWARD - AND THEN AROUND THE CORNER WHERE OTHER PASSENGERS ARE GATHERING TO BOARD THE TRAIN ( NOW - LETS GO BACK TO THE BOTTOM OF THE STAIRCASE ) IN HIS ZEAL & WITH A GUT FULL OF EXCITEMENT - FULLY WORKED UP ABOUT GETTING TO THE BOARDING STATION ( EMMETT BOUNDS UP THE FIRST STAIRCASE & MAKES IT TO THE PLATFORM ) - ( AS THOUGH HE HAS FORGOTTEN SOMETHING ) HE TURNS AROUND & BOUNDS BACK DOWN - AGAIN ( HIS MOTHER SEES HIM COMING ) WHEN HE REACHES HER - HE TAKES HIS WATCH OF OF HIS WAIST & GIVES IT TO HER ( AINT GOING TO NEED THIS ) HE TELLS HER - BUT HE KEEPS HIS FATHER RING ON HIS FINGER - HE HAD GOTTEN OLD ENOUGH & HAD GOTTEN BIG ENOUGH TO WEAR IT - WITHOUT HAVING TO UTILIZE TAPE ( IT WAS A FAMILY HEIRLOOM ) AND IT IS A GOOD THING THAT HE DID . . . ONCE HE GIVES HIS MOTHER HIS WATCH - EMMETT BOUNDS BACK UP THE STAIRCASE - AND JUST ABOUT THE TIME THAT HE REACHES THE PLATFORM - MID WAY - HIS MOTHER CALLS OUT HIM ( THE PROPHETESS: MRS MAMIE TILL ) - ( "BO" ) THIS CALL MUST HAVE BEEN QUITE LOUD & MADE WITH AFFECTION - FOR IT CAUGHT HER SONS ATTENTION IMMEDIATEDLY & CAUSES HIM TO TURN & FACE HER DOWN THERE ( YOU DID NOT HUG ME ( SAID HIS MOTHER ) WE MIGHT NOT EVER SEE EACH OTHER AGAIN ) THIS PHRASE IS OFTEN USED BY PEOPLE OF COLOR & UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES ( BACK DOWN THE STAIRCASE EMMETT GOES - ONCE MORE ) SINCE THEY BOTH - WERE IN DIRE NEED OF AFFECTION & REASSURANCE & AT A TIME LIKE THIS ( THE TWO HUGGS EACH OTHER ) AND SINCE TIME WAS NIGH & OF THE ESSENCE - BACK UP THE STAIRCASE HE GOES - AS HIS MOTHER LOOKS UPWARDS  AT HER SON ( FOR WHAT WAS GOING TO BE THE LAST TIME ) AS HE DISAPPEARS AROUND THE CORNER & IN THE DIRECTION OF THE BOARDING STATION . . . WHILE WAITING TO EXHALE - SHE MAKES AN ABOUT TURN & GOES IN THE DIRECTION OF HER AUTOMOBILE - SHE IS CONFIDENT THAT HER SON - WILL CATCH UP WITH HIS TRAVELING COMPANSIONS & THEY WOULD SOON BE ON THEIR WAY - FOR FAMILY MEMBERS DOWN SOUTH - WERE WAITING TO EXHALE AS WELL - FOR IT HAD BEEN SEVERAL YEARS - SINCE THEY HAD SEEN EMMETT - EMMETT WAS COMING WITH THE GROUP - AMONG THEM WAS A COUSIN ( WHEELER PARKER ) THIS FAMILY OF COUSINS WOULD BE ARRIVING IN MONEY MISSISSIPPI - IN ABOUT SIXTEEN HOURS . . . THE TIMESPAN OF SOUTHERN VISITS - WERE CUSTOMERILY TWO WEEKS & MRS MAMIE TILL ( AT LONG LAST ) WAS GOING TO HAVE SOME MUCH NEEDED TIME TO HERSELF - SHE WAS EVEN THINKING ABOUT DRIVING TO DETROIT - IN A FEW DAYS - BUT HER SELF IMPOSED VACATION TIME WAS TO BE SHORT LIVED . . .

. . . WHEN THIS ABDUCTION & MURDER TOOK PLACE ( IN FACT - HAD JUST HAD A BIRTHDAY ) ONLY A COUPLE OF WEEKS BEFORE ( YOURS TRULY / AUGUST 12 1945 / ETC ) AND MY GRANDFATHER HAD ALMOST TWO YEARS MORE TO LIVE ( MR JOHN "UNCLE BUDDY" WASHINGTON / 1879 - 1957 / ETC ) AS FORMER MEMBERS OF OUR VARIOUS COMMUNITIES - SPENT TIME BRINGING THE GORE DETAILS HOME - TO ARKANSAS COUNTY ( ALONG WITH MAGAZINES: EBONY & JET / ETC ) ASSURING ONE & ALL - THAT THINGS WERE ALIVE & WELL - FOR JUST THE STATE LINE ALONE - SEPARATED US FROM MISSISSIPPI - ITSELF - WITH THE WORLD BY NOW - BEING UP IN ARMS OVER A MURDER & THE CONDITION OF THE BODY - BEING SHOWN IN THE WINDY CITY & AT ONE OF ITS LOCAL FUNERAL HOMES . . .

. . . WALKED WITH DETERMINATION ( FOR HIS WORD WAS HIS BOND ) HE HAD DECIDED TO LEAVE HIS COMMUNITY IN TIME - TO ARRIVE AT A FAR AWAY DESTINATION - SOMETIMES THE NEXT DAY ( WILLIE REED / 1937 -   / ETC ) AFTER HAVING LEFT HIS COMMUNITY - NIGHT CATCHES HIM ON A LONG WINNING STRETCH OF CRUD ROADWAY ( WHICH IS SURE TO BE A SUITABLE MEANS OF TRAVEL - TODAY ) AND THERE - HE BORE WITNESS TO HOURS OF ACTIVITES ( A TRUCK CARRYING MEN / BOTH WHITE MEN & BLACK MEN / BOTH - IN THE CAB & IN THE TRUCK BED / ETC ) AND SINCE HE WAS WALKING ALONG THIS ROADWAY & MINDING HIS BUSINESS ( SEE NO EVIL / HEAR NO EVIL / SPEAK NO EVIL ) & ( DO NO EVIL ) ALL OF THESE DRIVINGS - BACKWARDS & FORWARDS WOULD NOT MEAN A THING TO HIM - UNTIL LATER ON . . .

. . . WHILE STILL A YOUNG GIRL - THE FAMILY COULD SEE PROMISE IN THE FEATURES & THE FACE OF THEIR YOUNG DAUGHTER ( MAMIE ELIZABETH CARTHAN TILL / 1921 - 2003 / ETC ) SINCE SHE WAS GOING TO NEED A GOOD EDUCATION - HER FAMILY MOVED TO THE NORTH ( ARGO ILLINOIS / COOK COUNTY / ETC ) THIS YOUNG JEWEL WAS GOING TO BE WELL POLISHED - WHEN WE SEE PHOTOGRAPHS OF HER - ITS HER SMILE - THAT SERVES AS A REFLECTION FROM WITHIN - A PROMISE OF A GLORIOUS FUTURE - FOR HER FAMILY - AS THEY RELOCATES NEAR UNTO THE WINDY CITY ( WHERE SOCIAL ECONOMICAL & FORMAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES / ETC ) AWAITS THE NEW COMERS & THEIR FIRST GENERATIONAL YOUNG PRODIGY . . . AFTER BEING IN THE BIG CITY - FOR A FEW OF YEARS ( HER PARENTS SEPARATES / ETC ) HER MOTHER CARRIES THIS WHOLE FAMILY LOAD ( AS THE HEAD OF THE HOUSEHOLD - HAS MOVED ON / ETC ) THIS ONE PARENT HOUSEHOLD THEN - STRIVES ( WITH THE MOTHER OF THE HOUSEHOLD ) MAKING HER YOUNG DAUGHTER EDUCATION ( ETC ) HER FIRST PRIORITY . . . HER DAUGHTER REACHES MARRING AGE ( WITHOUT THE FAMILYS APPROVAL / ETC ) SHE MEETS THE ACQUAINTANCE OF AN UNLIKE CHARACTER - WHOM SHE MARRIES & THEY IMMEDIATELY BECOME PARENTS TO THEIR FIRST & ONLY CHILD ( SON: EMMETT LOUIS TILL / 1941 - 1955 / ETC ) AND THIS NEW ARRIVIAL - BECOMES THE SECOND GENERATIONAL JEWEL IN THE FAMILYS CROWN - BACK IN THOSE DAYS IT TOOK HARD WORK & DETERMINATION - AND OF COURSE - TIME WAS TO PAY A SIGNIFICANT PART - IN THIS LIFE LONG EQUATION . . .

. . . WELL AFTER A NIGHT OF TERROR IN A SHED ( THE WEIGHT OF THIS COTTON GIN FAN - HAS STARTED TO VARY / NINETY LBS & SEVENTY LBS / ETC ) THE KIDNAPPERS KNEW EXACTLY WHERE TO FIND - THE LIKELY WEIGHT THAT THEY WERE GOING TO NEED - AFTER ALL - THEY WERE NOT FINISHED WITH THIS ISSUE ( THE YOUNG VISITOR FROM THE NORTH - HAD NO IDEA THAT THE END WAS NEAR ) WITH THERE BEING A FEW MORE HOURS LEFT - BEFORE DAY BREAK . . . AT YET ONE OTHER LOCATION - THERE WAS REPAIR WORK BEING DONE - TO A COTTON GIN & THERE WAS GOING TO BE LEFT OVER SCRAP METAL - SCRAP METAL OF THE WEIGHTY KIND ( DEEMED AS A COTTON GIN FAN ) THE CORPORATES WERE NOT GOING TO HAVE TO LIFT A FINGER ( AS INJURIED AS HE WAS ) IT WAS THE VICTUM HIMSELF - WHO WAS GOING TO DO THE LIFTING ( ACCORDING TO MY RESEARCH ) WHEN HE WAS INSTRUCTED TO DO SO - HE LIFTED THIS SIZABLE GIN FAN & DID SO WITHOUT MUCH TROUBLE ( ALTHO HE WAS ONLY FOURTEEN YEARS OLD ) HE WAS BIG FOR HIS AGE - BEING YOUNG & STRONG - HE TOOK THE CORPORATES ORDERS ( AS HE WOULD HAVE DONE ) FROM ANY OTHER RESPECTABLE GROWNUP ( EXCEPT - HE HAD NO IDEA ) THAT THIS GIN FAN BUSINESS HAD TO DO WITH HIM . . . THIS SITUATION HAD YET ONE OTHER STOP TO MAKE & THAT WAS GOING TO BECOME THE SPOT OF DISPOSAL - WITH THE VICTUM & THE GIN FAN ON BOARD THE TRUCK BED - THIS VEHICLE HEADED THEN - FOR THE RIVER KNOWN VERY WELL ( THE TALLAHATCHIE RIVER / MONEY MISSISSIPPI / ETC ) HERE AGAIN ( THE STORY SEEMS TO VARY / ETC ) AS THE CURTAIN OF LIFE IS COMING TO AN END - THIS YOUNG FOURTEEN YEAR OLD ADULT ( AFTER ALL HE HAD BEEN THROUGH ) STILL FELT SOMEWHAT OPTIMISTIC ( WHAT SEEMS TO BE MISSING HERE - ARE THE SEVERAL MEN OF COLOR - WHO HAD GATHETRED THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT ) BUT WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING TO THE BANK OF THE RIVER - WHERE THE GIN FAN WILL BE COMING INTO PLAY - BUT THE VICTUM WILL NEVER KNOW WHAT THE PURPOSE OF THIS GIANT CHUNK OF METAL ( FOR HE IS GOING TO BE SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD - FIRST ) JUST ABOUT THIS TIME ( A PIECE OF BARB WIRE IS GOING TO SURFACE ) ITS A WELL PRACTICED PLAN & IS AS OLD AS THE OLE SOUTH - ITSELF . . .

. . . FROM THE TIME THAT I FIRST HEARD THE STORY ( THE EMMETT TILL ORDEAL / 1941 - 1955 / ETC ) NEVER FAIL TO KEEP TRACK OF EACH & EVERY DETAIL - WHICH PERTAINS TO HIS HORROR ( IN THE JET MAGAZINE ) THERE IS THE PHOTOGRAPH OF THE BOAT ( PICTURED ON THE BANK OF THE TALLAHATCHIE RIVER - MONEY MISSISSIPPI / ETC ) BUT DEAR READERS - ITS BEEN OVER FIFTY YEARS - SINCE THIS ORDEAL TOOK PLACE & THINGS CHANGE ( RECENTLY - SAW A PHOTOGRAPH ) OF A PLACK THAT IS SITUATED - IN WHAT TO BE THE MIDDLE OF A FIELD - THERE IS GRASS EVERYWHERE ( WHICH TELL VISITORS ) THAT THIS IS THE VERY SPOT - WHERE THE VICTUMS BODY WAS SPOTTED BY A FISHERMAN & CARRIED TO THE BANK OF THE RIVER ( THREE DAYS AFTER HE WAS MURDERED ) BUT DEAR READERS - SHOULDNT THIS PLACK BE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TALLAHATCHIE RIVER ( OR - ARE WE DEALING WITH THE OXBOW CONCEPT ) AS IT WERE . . . DID MY RESEARCH ON THE OXBOW CONCEPT ( USED RATIONALE ) OXBOWS SEEMS TO DEVELOP TOWARDS THE BOTTOM OF A LAND MASS - RESULTING FROM FORCES PLACED ON A STREAM OF FLOWING WATER ( THERE IS A U-SHAPED FORMATION ) THEN WE ARE DEALING WITH EROSION & THE SIFTING OF SILTS ( WHICH TENDS TO CAUSE - A PROCESS OF FILLING IN ) WHERE A STREAM OF WATER TENDS TO MOVE AROUND ( YES - IT TAKES YEARS ) FOR MUDDY WATERS TO RE-BUILD BANKS & FILL WASHOUTS - BUT ACCORDING TO MY RESEARCH - IT HAPPENED . . . BUT THEN AGAIN - WHEN THE PUBLIC IS ON TOUR - THEY CAN NOT EXPECT TO GO OUT INTO THE MIDDLE OF A RIVER - IN ORDER TO SEE THE EXACT SPOT WHERE A CRIME HAS OCCURRED ( SOMEONE NEEDS TO GET BACK WITH ME ON THIS MATTER - PLEASE ) WANT TO BE AS ACCURATE AS I CAN POSSIBLE BE - IT IS UP TO US TO KEEP THE DECEASED HISTORICAL FACTS STRAIGHT - AS IT WERE . . .

. . . LOCATED IN MONEY MISSISSIPPI - A SMALL COMMUNITY THATS NOTORIOUSLY KNOWN - FOR THE DEATH OF A CHICAGO YOUTH ( THE LATE MR EMMETT LOUIS TILL / 1941 - 1955 / MONEY MISSISSIPPI / ETC ) HIS MOTHER ( THE LATE MRS MAMIE TILL BRADLEY / 1921 - 2003 / CHICAGO ILLINOIS / ETC ) IS IN DIRE NEED OF SOME VOCATION TIME - AS SHE MAKES PLANS TO VISIT FAMILY MEMBERS UP STATE . . . HER SON HOWEVER - HAD A MORE FASCINATING PLAN - THERE WERE COUSINS IN THE CHICAGO AREA - WHO WAS PLANNING TO TAKE A TRIP DOWN SOUTH ( MONEY MISSISSIPPI ) THEY WERE TO MEET AT THE BUS STATION IN THE LOOP ( MISSED HIS TRAIN SCHEDULE ) BUT SINCE TIME WAS OF THE ESSENCE - HIS MOTHER TAKES HIM TO STOP AT THE TRAIN STATION - NEAR BY ( 63RD & STONEY ISLAND / CHICAGO ILLINOIS / ETC ) RIGHT DOWN THE STREET FROM MY OUR OLD HIGH SCHOOL ( HIGH PARK HIGH SCHOOL ) ATTENDED THIS SCHOOL WHILE IN THE NINETH GRADE ( 1961 ) MY AUNT BY MARRIAGE CAME PART THE WAY ( ONE EVENING AFTER SCHOOL ) AND I THOUGHT SHE WAS COMING TO WALK ME HOME ( WAS NEW IN THE CITY & SHE WAS CONCERNED ABOUT ME ) BUT MY AUNT WANTED TO SHARE SOMETHING INTERESTING & HISTORICAL WITH ME . . . THE STAIRCASE WHERE MRS TILL CARRIED EMMETT - WAS RIGHT ON THE CORNER & THE SAME STAIRCASE THAT HE BOUNDED UP & THEN BACK DOWN AGAIN ( THUS HANDING HIS MOTHER - HIS WATCH ( AINT GOING TO NEED THIS - SAID EMMETT ) AND BACK UP THE STAIRCASE HE GOES ) FOR HIS TRAIN WAS ON THE WAY & FOR CERTAIN - EMMETT DID NOT WANT TO MISS THE TRIP DOWN SOUTH - NOR DID HE WANT TO MISS BEING WITH FELLOWS HIS OWN AGE ( EMMETT KEEPS A CERTAIN RING ON HIS FINGER - HOWEVER ) AND ITS A GOOD THING HE DID - THIS RING WAS GOING TO COME IN HANDY ( EMMETT IS GOING TO SUFFER A TRAGIC MISSHAP ) AND ITS GOING TO BE THIS RING - THAT WILL TELL THE WORLD WHO HE IS - EVEN HIS OWN FAMILY MEMBERS - WILL BE LOOKING TO THIS RING ( AS A CLUE ) IN THEIR ENDEAVOR TO IDENTIFING HIM . . . HE IS WITH HIS COUSINS - SEATED - LAUGHING & TALKING - BUT IN A FEW DAYS AT THE MOST ( THE TALLAHATCHIE RIVER ) THIS YOUNG MAN FROM THE WINDY CITY - IS GOING TO HAVE A CLOSE ENCOUNTER - WITH THIS BODY OF WATER - A CLOSE ENCOUNTER THATS GOING TO PUT THIS RIVER ON THE WORLD MAP . . .

. . . IN RECENT WEEKS ( ALL OF AMERICA ) HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN CELEBRATING THIS VICTORIOUS EVENT - IN THE RE-ELECTION OF OUR FORMER PRESIDENT ( THE NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT / PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA / ETC ) THE STATE OF ARKANSAS ( PINE BLUFF ARKANSAS / JEFFERSON COUNTY / ETC ) WAS WELL REPRESENTED ( THE 57TH INAUGURATION OF OUR NATIONS PRESIDENT / WITH OUR FIRST LADY BY HIS SIDE - OUR FIRST LADY - MRS MICHELLE OBAMA / ETC ) THOUGHOUT THIS MOMENTOUS OCCASION ( SNIPPETS WERE SHOWN ) AND AMONG THESE SHOWINGS ( THE LATE DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR / ETC ) WAS DEFINITELY INCLUDED & REPRESENTED THIS SOCIAL OCCASION - BEAUTIFULLY ( DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR: I HAVE A DREAM ) WHEN DR KING GETS TO A CERTAIN STANZA ( THE WORDS FOUND THEREIN ) REMINDED ME - OF SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I HAD PLANNED TO DO ( IN MEMORY OF THE LATE EMMETT LOUIS TILL / ETC ) QUOTED DR KING ( I HAVE A DREAM - THAT ONE DAY - EVERY VALLEY SHALL BE EXHALTED - EVERY HILL & MOUNTAIN SHALL BE MADE LOW - THE ROUGH PLACES WILL BE MADE PLAIN - AND THE CROOKED PLACED WILL BE MADE STRAIGHT ( AND THE GLORY OF GOD SHALL BE REVEALED ) - ( AND ALL FLESH SHALL SEE IT TOGETHER ) IF I WAS TO WRITE A BOOK - ABOUT THIS WHOLE DISASTER - NATURALLY - THIS STANZA SHOULD APPEAR - AS A PART OF MY SUB TITLE - FOR ALL OF MRS MOBLEYS EFFORTS & THE EXHUMATION - ITSELF - CAN BE FOUND WRAPPED UP IN THIS STANZA - THIS STANZA SAYS IT ALL . . . WHEN I THINK OF THE MOTHER OF THE LATE EMMETT TILL ( THE LATE MRS MAMIE TILL MOBLEY ) AND ALL OF THE EFFORTS THAT SHE PUT FORTH - IN THE MEMORY OF HER LATE SON ( WHILE JUSTICE JUST DRAGGED ITS FEET ) ON WHAT EXISTING LAWS THAT WERE AVAILABLE - SHOULD HAVE DONE ABOUT THE MURDER OF HER SON ( IT WAS ALL SHE COULD DO - TO GET HIM BACK HOME ) - ( AND ALL THAT SHE DID TO FUNERALIZE HIM - WITH THE CASKET OPEN ) - ( HER MANY TRIPS - BACK TO THE OLE SOUTH - SEEKING JUSTICE FOR HIS MURDER ) WERE TO NO AVAIL ( AS THE DOORS OF JUSTICE KEPT SLAMMING AIMLESSLY - IN HER FACE / ETC ) AFTER ALL - THIS WAS HER ONLY CHILD - IT WAS A SHAME THAT SHE DID NOT LIVE TO WITNESS THE EXHUMATION ( BUT - ALL FLESH SAW IT TOGETHER ) - ( THE HILLS & THE MOUNTAINS - THE ROUGH PLACES & THE CROOKED PLACES - ETC ) MEANS THAT - DURING THE TIME THAT THIS DISASTER TOOK PLACE ( PERHAPS - AMERICA COULD DO NOTHING ) UNTIL THE POLITICAL LEADERS & THE PEOPLE AT LARGE - PASSED LAWS & UTILIZED THEM ( THIS IS WHY THE GUILTY PARTIES - GOT OFF ) TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ( REGARDLESS OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA ) - (  AND REGARDLESS OF THE COLOR OF ONES SKIN ) THE LAW IS THE LAW ( IN THAT DAY - THERE WERE NO LAWS & THERE WERE NO ONE TO ENACT THEM ) AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY ( A REMNANT HAD TO BE RAISED UP ) EVER SO OFTEN - WITH GODS VESSELS STEPPING FORTH - TO SERVE IN A CAPACITY - THAT WOULD BENEFIT ALL OF MANKIND - AS IT WERE . . .

. . . A DISCOVERY THAT SPARKED ONE OF AMERICAS GREATEST MOVEMENTS ( THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT / 1955 - 1968 / ETC ) CAME ABOUT - BECAUSE OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE BODY OF A YOUNG MAN - WHO HAD BEEN MURDERED IN THE DEEP SOUTH ( WITH THERE BEING THOUSANDS OF MURDERS ) LIKE THIS ONE - ONLY A CHOICE FEW WERE EVER RETRIEVED - AND IT WAS THE PRACTIVE ( IF ANY BODIES SURFACED ) THERE WAS TO BE A RUSH BURIAL ( THE WHEELS OF OCCURRENCES ) SPINS TO THE ADVANTAGE OF THE CORPORATES & AGAINST THE ADVANTAGES OF THE VICTUMS FAMILY MEMBERS & ETHNICITY . . . WE ALL KNOW THE STORY PERTAINING TO THIS HIDEOUS EVENT ( ITS HIS FIRST VISIT TO THE SOUTH ) - ( UPON HIS ARRIVIAL - HE TAKES HIS COUNTRY COUSINS TO THE STORE FOR TREATS ) - ( APPARENTLY - SOMEONE WHISLES & THEN THEY ALL FLEE ) SOME DAYS LATER ( THE SUBJECT IS RETRIEVED FROM THE HOME OF HIS FAMILY ) THERE IS A MAN - WHO WALKS IN THE NIGHT - WHO WILL BECOME A DISCERNING WITNESS - TO THE ACTIVITIES THAT LEADS UP TO THE DEATH OF A FOURTEEN YEAR OLD - FROM THE NORTH  ( AFTER A NIGHT OF TERROR ) THE REMAINS ARE CARRIED TO A WELL KNOW RIVER ( THE TALLAHATCHIE RIVER ) AND ROLLED DOWN A SHUTE & INTO THE MUDDY WATERS - WHERE A FISHERMAN SPOTS HIS REMAINS - THREE DAYS LATER ( A POINT OF INTEREST PLEASE: FOLLOWING A NIGHT OF TERROR - KNOWING FULL WELL THAT THE VICTUM WAS ( DEAD AND/OR DYING ) THE NEXT MORNING - WHAT THE MURDERS PERCEIVED TO HAVE BEEN A DEAD BODY - WAS NOT DEAD AT ALL ) BECAUSE OF THE ORDEAL THAT THEY HAD PUT THE VICTUM THROUGH - DURING THE RUN OF THE NIGHT ) MAY HAVE PLACED THE VICTUM IN A COMMA - BEFORE TOO LONG  DAY WAS GOING TO BE BREAKING ( THE CORPORATES HAD TO ACT FAST ) AND SO - THEY THREW HIM INTO THE BED OF THEIR TRUCK & COVERED HIM WITH A TARPAULIN AKA TARP ( THIS COVERING - IS CLOSE ) AND THEN THEY DROVE HIM TO THE RIVER ( THEY DROVE HIM TO THE RIVER ( DEFINED ) AS BOTH TWO WHITE MEN & A NUMBER OF MEN OF COLOR - WAS AT THE RIVERS EDGE - WHEN HE WAS ROLLED INTO THE RIVER ) WHEN THE MURDERERS UNCOVERED THE VICTUM - THE VICTUM SHOWED SIGNS OF LIFE - WITH TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE ( AND I STAND CORRECTED: THIS IS WHERE THEY SHOT HIM IN THE HEAD ) AND TIED HIM TO A NINETY POUND GIN FAN & ROLLED HIM DOWN THE SHUTE - AND INTO THE MUDDY WATERS BWELOW . . . WHAT ROLES DID THE MEN OF COLOR PLAY IN THIS EVENT ( AM GLAD YOU ASK ) THERE WERE SEVERAL OF THESE MEN OF COLOR ( MR WILLIE REED / 1937 -    ) IS THE MAN OF COLOR - WHO IS GOING DOWN A LONG WINNING ROAD - AS HE IS STRIVING TO BECOME EMPLOYED ( HIS WORD IS HIS BOND ) THEREFORE - HE PLANS TO ARRIVE ON TIME & TO MAKE A GOOD IMPRESSION - UPON HIS FUTURE EMPLOYEE - AS HE WALKS FOR MILES & MILES ( MR LEVY "TOO TIGHT" COLLINS / 1935 - 1992 / ETC ) SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN THE MAN OF COLOR - WHO HAD BEEN EMPLOYED BY THE TRUCK OWNERS - SINCE HE WAS SIXTEEN YEARS OLD - HE IS IN THE BACK OF THE TRUCK - AS HIS TWO EMPLOYERS ARE DRIVING OUT TO UNCLE MOSES ( TO PICK UP THAT BOY FROM CHICAGO / EMMETT LOUIS TILL / 1941 - 1955 / ETC ) THE TWO WHITE MEN HAD NO IDEA - WHAT THEY WERE UP AGAINST - SO THEY ARE BRINGING ALONG THEIR HANDYMAN ( THE MAN HANDLING ISSUE / ETC ) TO TAKE CARE OF ANY MAN HANDLING THAT WAS GOING TO BE DONE ( MR OTHA JR / 1934 - 2002 / ETC ) OUR DISCERNING WITNESS ( MR WILLIE REED / 1937 -    ) PLACES THIS MAN OF COLOR ON THE BACK OF THE CORPORATES TRUCK - AS THEY ARE TRAVELING BACKWARDS & FORWARDS - ON THE MORNING OF THE MURDER ( MR JOHNNY B WASHINGTON / 1928 - 1980 / ETC ) HAS BEEN PLACED ON THE FRONT PORCH OF UNCLE MOSES - WHILE THE CORPORATES WERE INSIDE - ABDUCTING & EASYING THE VICTUM OUT OF UNCLE MOSES ( MR FRANK YOUNG / 1920 -   ) WAS A FIELD WORKER - WHO VOLUNTEERED - TO GATHERED NAMES OF THE CORPORATES ACCOMPLICES - IN THE KIDNAPPING & MURDER OF THE VICTUM . . .

. . . AN AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE - FROM THE HEART OF MISSISSIPPI (   ) WHO PLAYED A SIGNIFICANT ROLE ( ONE WHO IS DEEMED AS A WITNESS - AND ONE WHO WALKED IN THE NIGHT ) AND ONE WHO BORE WITNESS TO ( WHAT TURNED OUT TO BE ) CRIMINAL ACTIVITES - TO ONE OF THE MOST HIDEOUS MURDERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY . . . SOMEWHERE & DURING SOME TIME - THIS INDIVIDUAL HAD BEEN PROMISED EMPLOYMENT - IN ORDER TO GET TO THIS PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT - HE WAS GOING TO HAVE TO WALK ( AND SINCE HIS WORD WAS HIS BOND ) HE WAS GOING TO HAVE TO START OUT EARLY & WALK FOR MILES - DOWN AN ENOMOUS STRETCH OF ( PERHAPS TODAY - ITS A WELL DEVELOPED - INTERSTATE HIGHWAY ) CRUDENESS - WHICH WAS TO RUN PARALLEL - TO A COMMUNITY NAME MONEY ( MONEY MISSISSIPPI ) NO DOUBT - THIS INDIVIDUAL ATE A MEAL & THEN SAID GOODBYES TO HIS KINRED & FRIENDS - AND OFF HE GOES - WE ARE GOING TO SAY THAT HE LEFT WELL BEFORE SUNDOWN - FOR IT WAS GOING TO TAKE MUCH TIME - IN THAT HIS ONLY MODE OF TRANSPORTATION WAS GOING TO BE BY FOOT - ONCE HE WAS ON THE ROAD - EVENUALLY - THE SUN GOES DOWN ON HIM & HE ENCOUNTERS THE CLOAK OF DARKNESS ( AS HE CONTINUES TO WALK ) IF IT WAS THE LAST THING HE WAS GOING TO DO ( HE THOUGHT ) HE WAS GOING TO ARRIVE AT HIS DISTINATION ( AND DO SO - ON TIME ) HE WAS PROMISED EMPLOYMENT ( AND FULL TIME ) BUT FOR NOW - HE MUST KEEP RIGHT ON WALKING ( ITS LATE NOW ) AROUND TEN/TWELVE OCLOCK PM ( HE HEARS A VEHICLE COMING / ENCOUNTER #ONE / ETC ) IT IS COMING FROM BEHIND HIM - AND THEN IT PASSES HIM & HE HAS DETERMINED - THAT THERE ARE TWO WHITE MEN IN THE CAB OF THIS TRUCK ( AND IN THE BED OF THE TRUCK - HOWEVER ) THERE IS A MAN - WHO IS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN ( THE ONE WHO WALKS IN THE NIGHT ) DOES SO ( AS TO MIND HIS OWN BUSINESS ) AND ALSO WALKS IN THE NIGHT ( AS THOUGH - HE IS INVISABLE ) AS HE CONTINUES ON WITH HIS WALKING ( THE WOODS ARE DEEP DARK & LOVELY - BUT HE HAS PROMISES TO KEEP & MILES TO GO BEFORE HE SLEEPS ) AS THE TRUCK MOVES ON & OUT OF SIGHT . . . THIS TRUCK IS ON ITS WAY TO ( THE HOME OF UNCLE MOSES & HIS WIFE ) ALONG WITH A HOUSE FULL OF SOUTHERN VISITORS ( ONE VISITOR INCLUDES A YOUNG MAN FROM CHICAGO / THE LATE MR EMMETT LOUIS TILL / ETC ) WHO HAS COME TO THE SOUTH - ON HIS FIRST VISIT AWAY FROM HIS IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBERS - OUT OF THE NORTH ( ESPECIALLY - HIS MOTHER / THE LATE MRS MAMIE TILL / ETC ) IN MY MINDS EYE - YOURS TRULY CAN SEE THE TWO WHITE MEN - ON UNCLE MOSES FRONT PORCH ( THEY ARE QUITE NOISY / ETC ) AS THEY ARE KNOCKING ON THE DOOR OF THE HOME - WHERE A HUMBLE COMMUNITY LEADER & HIS FAMILY RESIDES . . . ONCE THEY ARE INSIDE - THEY ARE LOOKING UNCLE MOSES STRAIGHT IN THE FACE - AS THEY DEMAND TO KNOW ABOUT ( THAT BOY FROM CHICAGO / ETC ) THEY HAD COME TO GET HIM & THEY WERE NOT GOING TO LEAVE - UNTIL THEY DID ( UNCLE MOSES DID NOT UPHOLD YOUNGEST IN THEIR WRONG DOINGS ) - ( THESE MEN WERE GOING TO TEACH THE BOY A LESSON ) - ( RUFF HIM UP A LITTLE ) - ( HE IS IN THE SOUTH NOW / ETC ) UNCLE MOSES WAS WELL KNOWN IN THE AREA ( THEREFORE - HE ENTRUSTED HIS GREAT NEPHEW ) INTO THE HANDS OF THESE TWO WHITE FELLOWS ( DO NOT BELIEVE UNCLE MOSES WAS NAIVE ) HE SIMBLY ( HAD NO IDEA - ABOUT THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE EXTENDED MATTER ) AS THE TWO MEN DRAG THE YOUNG MAN OUT OF THE DOOR & THEN OFF OF THE PORCH - DOWN A FEW STEPS - THAT WAS ATTACHED TO THIS MERGER DWELLING & THEN ON OUT TO THE TRUCK ( THE MAN OF COLOR ON THE BACK OF THIS TRUCK ) - ( HAD BEEN IN THE EMPLOY OF THESE TWO MEN ) SINCE HE WAS SIXTEEN YEARS OLD ( QUESTION PLEASE: WAS HE ONE OF THEM - OR - WAS HE ONE OF US / ETC ) THIS MAN OF COLOR - IMMEDIATELY GOT OFF OF THE TRUCKS BED - AS TO GIVE HIS EMPLOYERS SOME ASSISTANCE WITH THIS YOUNG MAN ( WHO WAS BIG FOR HIS AGE / BUT HE WAS ONLY FOURTEEN YEARS OLD / ETC ) AND ONCE THEY HAD LOADED HIM INTO THE TRUCKS BED - THEY ALL THEN - TOOK OFF WITH THIS YOUNG MAN . . . THE TRUCK WITH ITS OCCUPANTS REVISED THEIR DIRECTION OF TRAVEL - ONCE AGAIN - THE MAN WHO WALKS THROUGH THE NIGHT ( HEARS A VEHICLE COMING / ENCOUNTER #TWO / ETC ) HE RECOGNIZES IT AS THE SAME TRUCK - THAT HAD PASSED HIM EARLY - BUT THIS TIME ( THERE ARE FOUR MEN: TWO WHITE MEN IN THE CAB & TWO BLACK MEN ON THE BED OF THE TRUCK / ETC ) AND THIS TIME - THE MOVING TRUCK IS FACING THE NIGHT WALKER . . . THE MEN WHO OCCUPPIED THE CAB OF THE TRUCK - FELT EXCITEMENT SURGING THROUGH THE VIENS - AS THEY THOUGHT ABOUT GOING TO AN AREA ( WHERE BLACKS HUNG OUT ) A WILLING CHARACTER USUALLY HUNG OUT AT THIS ESTABLISHMENT - AND THE MEN WERE GOING TO NEED ( THE MORE - THE MERRIER ) SUCH AN INDIVIDUAL - THE NIGHT WAS GOING TO LONG & ACTIVE . . . AND SURE ENOUGH - THEY DID RUN INTO HIM - THEY THEN LOADED HIM ONTO THE BED OF THE TRUCK - AND OFF THEY WENT ( A VEHICLE IS COMING / ENCOUNTER #3 / ETC ) THE ONE WHO WALKS UNDER THE CLOAK OF DARKNESS ( BY NOW ) RECOGNIZES THE SOUND OF THIS VEHICLE ( ALL OF THIS WALKING & ENCOUNTERING THE SAME VEHICLE / ETC ) CONSUMED HOURS - WITH THERE BEING MILES OF ROADWAY - WELL BEHIND THE NIGHT WALKER ( AND - WITH IT GETTING WELL PASS MIDNIGHT / ETC ) AND ONCE MORE - THE TRUCK PASSES BY THE ONE WHO WALKS IN THE NIGHT - AS THE BED OF THE TRUCK STARTING TO GET FULLER & FULLER . . . ON THE TRUCK GOES - THE MEN WHO OCCUPPIED THE CAB - KNEW JUST THE SPOT THAT THEY WERE GOING TO USE ( TO TEACH THIS YOUNG MAN A LESSON ) WHEN THEY ARRIVES AT THIS LIKELY SPOT ( ONE OTHER MAN OF COLOR APPEARS ) AND ACCORDING TO MY RESEARCH ( EACH MAN OF COLOR ) HAD A TASK AHEAD OF HIM - AND ONCE THEIR TASKS WERE ASSIGNED - THE TRUCK OWNERS WERE GOING TO BE IN A POSITION - TO STAND BASICALLY - ON THE SIDELINE TO ALL OF THIS - THE CROWNING TOUCH WAS GOING TO BE THEIRS - AS IT WERE . . . ONCE AGAIN - THE ONE WHO WALKED IN THE NIGHT COMES INTO TO PLAY ( FOR THE ROADWAY PASSED RIGHT BY THE SPOT - WHICH WAS PARALLEL TO THE ROADWAY / ETC ) WHERE & WHILE THE DISASTER WAS IN FULL PROGRESS ( THE ONE WHO WALKED IN THE NIGHT ) COULD HEAR THE YOUNG MAN FROM THE NORTH ( AND ALL OF HIS SUFFERINGS / ETC ) HIS CALLS TO HIS MOTHER - THAT HIS MOTHER WAS NEVER GOING TO HEAR ( SCREAMS - YELLS - SHRICKS / ENCOUNTER #4 / ETC ) GROWING UP IN THE OLE SOUTH - THE ONE WHO WALKED IN THE NIGHT ( SAW NO EVIL / HEARD NO EVIL / SPOKE NO EVIL / AND - DID NO EVIL / ETC ) KEPT RIGHT ON WALKING ( BUT HE RESURFACED ) ONCE ALL OF THIS WALKING CAME TO AN END ( AND THE NEWS MEDIAS OF AMERCIA ) AND EVENTUALLY - THE WORLD OVER - PICKED UP ON THE END RESULTS OF WHAT HAD TAKEN PLACE - FROM THE MAN OF COLOR - WHO WALKED THROUGH THE NIGHT - AS IT WERE . . .