Is Roy Bryant still alive or dead?
When Emmett Till, an African-American teenager, was 14 years old and visiting his relatives in Money, Mississippi, Roy Bryant, who was born on January 24th, 1931, and died on September 1st, 1994, was among the two of the men who cruelly killed Till. The other was his half-brother J.W. Milam. Later, Roy and his brother…
When Emmett Till, an African-American teenager, was 14 years old and visiting his relatives in Money, Mississippi, Roy Bryant, who was born on January 24th, 1931, and died on September 1st, 1994, was among the two of the men who cruelly killed Till. The other was his half-brother J.W. Milam.
Later, Roy and his brother Millam were brought to court for judging. They were in court in September 1955. They were found not guilty of kidnapping and killing Emmett because they were prosecuted in a white-only courtroom. Later, in 1956, they told their tale to Look magazine and were shielded from prosecution due to double jeopardy. Milam then admitted to killing Emmett, but he didn’t feel bad about it since he didn’t think killing the teenager was wrong. One of the first significant hate crimes to become widely publicized on a national basis was the lynching of Emmett Till.
Is Roy Bryant still alive or dead?
No, Roy Bryant lost his battle with cancer and died.
He died on September 1, 1994, at the Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi, in the United States.
