NewPanama Papers: Son of a man who killed Emmett Till named in latest leaks
Source: Independent
Panama Papers: Son of a man who killed Emmett Till named in latest leak
The Mississippi businessman was connected to the Mossack Fonseca law firm
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The latest release of the Panama Papers includes the name of a Mississippi businessman whose father killed 14-year-old Emmett Till - one the most high-profile racialized killings in the pre-Civil Rights US.
Harvey Milam - son of a man who admitted to killing Till, JW - showed up in the latest leak of the 11m documents obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in April. The documents implicated numerous heads of state, businessmen, and celebrities in money laundering and tax evasion scandals, with the help of the law firm Mossack Fonseca in Panama.
According to the ICIJ, Mr Milam was a client of Michael B Edge, who was an "unofficial representative" of Mosseck Fonseca questioned by the FBI in 2000.
Mr Milam was reportedly sued by the Nevis-based insurance company, Condor Insurance Limited, who claimed that he cheated investors by “fraudulently transferring the insurer’s assets to other companies”. The insurance company accused Mr Milam of transferring $313m in assets to Condor Guaranty, Inc, “to put them out of the reach of creditors,” the lawsuit filing reads.
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In the summer of 1955, two men, both of them white, abducted a 14-year-old African-American boy named Emmett Till from his great-uncle’s house in Money, Miss. Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam beat Till almost to death, gouged out one of his eyes, shot him in the head and then dumped his body — weighted by an enormous cotton-gin fan tied with barbed wire — in the Tallahatchie River.
Their motive: Till, visiting from his native Chicago, had reportedly flirted with — or, according to some accounts, spoken “disrespectfully” — to Bryant’s wife a few days before.
When an all-white, all-male jury acquitted Bryant and Milam of kidnapping and murder in September, the verdict shocked observers across the country and around the world. And when, mere months later, the men openly admitted to Look magazine that they had, in fact, mutilated and murdered Till, the outcry was so intense — and the reaction of Till’s devastated family so dignified — that it lit a spark that helped ignite the modern civil rights movement.
http://time.com/3877718/the-murder-of-emmett-till-and-the-sham-trial-that-shocked-the-nation/
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30 Years Ago
How Emmett Till’s
Lynching Launched
Civil Rights Drive
By SIMEON BOOKER
JET Washington Bureau Chief
Thirty years ago, when seamstress Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to budge from the White section of a Montgomery, Ala., bus, the incident was labeled the birth of the modern civil rights revolution.
It marked the first public focus on the man who engineered the historic Montgomery bus boycott and who later became the foremost leader of the civil rights movement – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Ironically, four months before Rosa Parks took the personal stand against segregation, a Black Chicago mother, Mrs. Mamie Till Mobley unknowingly, but decisively jolted “the sleeping giant of Black people.” Hurt and angered by the lynching of her only child, 14-year-old Emmett Till during a summer trip to Mississippi, Mrs. Mobley defied pressure from local authorities to immediately bury Till by demanding that his battered, mutilated body be brought back to the Windy City.
Screamed the distraught mother, “Open it up. Let the people see what they did to my boy.” Her face wet with tears, she leaned over the body, just removed from a rubber bag in a Chicago funeral home, and cried out, “Darling, you have not died in vain. Your life has been sacrificed for something.”
More:
http://www.emmetttillmurder.com/new-page-18/
Photos I've seen over the years of the two men have shown them, and their wives made them almost appear to be going to a party during their trial, with sneers, giggling, cocky attitudes, etc.
Just went to look for an example, found this:
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Outside the Tallahatchie Courthouse
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Thanks for the comments on the book. Something to think about. I would hope there was some kind of negative repercussion, surely! They really looked unperturbed during the trial. Hateful people, and that includes their neighbors.
The guy on the right:
In 1980, Reagan declared his candidacy in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the "community" where three Civil Rights marchers were murdered in cold blood.
Reagan, White As Snow
by Alec Dubro
www.tompaine.com/, May 13, 2007
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Domestically, he opposed every legislative remedy for African Americans, betraying a meanness of spirit and an open racism. As Sidney Blumenthal wrote in The Guardian in 2003:
Reagan opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (calling it "humiliating to the South"
, and ran for governor of California in 1966 promising to wipe the Fair Housing Act off the books. "If an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes or others in selling or renting his house," he said, "he has a right to do so." After the Republican convention in 1980, Reagan traveled to the county fair in Neshoba, Mississippi, where, in 1964, three Freedom Riders had been slain by the Ku Klux Klan. Before an all-white crowd of tens of thousands, Reagan declared: "I believe in states' rights."
It's hard to believe now, but in 1965, a higher percentage of congressional Republicans voted for the Voting Rights Act than Democrats. Reagan, then, wasn't following party tradition; he was making a grab for the white racist vote-and it worked. Southern Democrats abandoned the party en masse for one more welcoming to white supremacy. No wonder so many loved, and still love, the man: He validated people's whiteness.
It's true that Reagan knew enough to occasionally disguise his racism. He appointed Samuel Pierce to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development, where Pierce presided over the halving of housing subsidies. No matter. Reagan couldn't remember the man's name. Once, at a reception for the nation's mayors, he greeted Pierce with a '"Hello, Mr. Mayor." Despite this, a few black conservatives, such as Armstrong Williams, were willing to validate him as someone who knew better than the "civil rights establishment" what was good for African Americans.
But it was in foreign affairs that he showed that he could rise above mere opportunism and flaunt his racism for all the world to see. He was the best friend that South Africa's apartheid government had in the developed world.
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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Ronald_Reagan/Reagan_WhiteAsSnow.html
When President, he allowed his staff to refer to the slain civil rights leader as "Martin Lucifer Coon."
Anybody wonder who he meant when he conflated "food-stamps, vodka, Cadillacs, and welfare queens"?
Anybody wonder why the United States has rotted from the head down?
