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What Became of Emmett Till's Killers After They Were Acquitted of His Murder?

Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy visiting family in Mississippi from Chicago, was brutally murdered in August 1955.

J.W. Milam and his brother Roy Bryant, both white, were charged with the crime.

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    • Unfortunately, to no one's surprise, they were acquitted by an all-white, male jury. What happened to Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam after the trial?

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    What happened to Roy Bryant and J.W.

    Milam?

    Both men ended up living rather unremarkable lives, each dying of cancer, as reported by The Clarion Ledger. A year after the trial ended, J.W. ended up on a farm near Ruleville, Miss. William Bradford Huie of Look Magazine, who interviewed the brothers almost immediately after the trial (more on this in a bit), did a follow-up piece around that time.

    William said that despite the fact that they were smiling in the photo taken for the article, it was just a facade