Difference between revisions of "Death of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan (1962)"
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Revision as of 18:54, 8 January 2021
The Death of Emmett Till is a song by American musician and Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan, telling about the murder and trial of a 14-year-old African-American young man. Emmett Till was killed by two white men, reportedly after flirting with a white woman on August 28, 1955. In 1962, Dylan first performed the song [1] and apparently the song which is also known as The Ballad of Emmett Till never appeared on Dylan’s studio albums. [2]
Key Lyrics
This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man
That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan
But if all of us folks that thinks alike, if we gave all we could give
We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live [3]
Black Empowerment
"They murdered that boy, and to hide their dastardly act, they tied barbed wire to his neck and to a heavy gin fan and dumped him into the river for the turtles and the fish." --Prosecutor Gerald Chatham