chicago in august of that year, while visiting his cousins in the mississippi delta he whistled at caroline bryant, 20 year old white shopkeeper, of bryant's grocery in the heart of the mississippi delta. for that, three days later he was lynched, which in this case means he was kidnapped, tortured, shot, and dropped in a river. five days later, the body was back in chicago where hundreds of thousands of people saw it. among them the photographer, david jackson, whose picture of the bloated unbeaten body circulated so widely that you can probably picture it in your head, even if you've never seen it. three weeks after the photograph, two of the murders were acquitted by an all white jury, and three months after the trial martin luther king day unitard tills story told from the pulpit of his own dexter avenue baptist church in montgomery, and he never forgot it. eight years later, on june 23rd, 1963, cummings and detroit and he was still talking about emmett till. you might recognize his language. king said, i have a dream this afternoon that there will be a day we know longer face the atrocities t