Mamie, as well as other Black leaders at that time, were not convinced that Emmett’s murderers would be convicted, but they were hoping they’d at least be punished for kidnapping Emmett. PBS reported that mere weeks prior to the grand jury meeting, Mississippi Senator James O. Eastland, a segregationist and plantation owner, discovered harrowing information about Emmett’s father, Louis.

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