Personal Narrative: I Love Emmett

To my love Emmett
Today was the day I was going to tell my best friend since 1st grade how I felt about him as more than a friend. Maybe it was time that I expressed my feelings towards him, and stop being a so called whimp. I moved from Mississippi when I was 10 year old and leaving Emmett was even harder. We were both raised in Chicago and we had always been together, even our families were close. This summer Emmett will be visiting soon for his two week vacation with his relatives, and had called to inform me of where he would be located. Mississippi isn’t the nicest place to be but I guess i’ve grown to like it. As I walk around Mississippi I hate to see that whites and blacks are being separated I didn’t understand but maybe I was too
They wanted to pull a prank on a store clerk down at “Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market in Money, Mississippi” (Linder) You could say I was pretty nervous about this stupid prank they wanted to pull, and really didn’t know how tonight would end. As we got closer to the store I would start to ask questions such as “Guys should we really be doing this?”, “Can we turn back around?” They would just tell me to be quiet and just go with it. Emmett would always say “Don’t worry, everything will be fine, let loose for once.” I had a bad gut feeling about what could happen if Emmett messes up something, I knew it was a bad idea to
It was one of the saddest days of my life, and I couldn’t believe I was living it at age 14. We sat on September 23, 1955 to hear the verdict of what Bryant and Milam got for kidnapping and killing Emmett. “After an hour of deliberating, the jury returns a “not guilty” verdict.” (Linder) None of us could believe it, we were all depressed and knew that could not be. Years passed and finally in “1957, In part due to publicity about the Till case, Congress passed the first Civil Rights Act since Reconstruction.” (Tinder) That night we had a celebration of Emmett's life with family and friends, and remembered him as the outgoing person he was. Even though I never got to tell Emmett how I felt about him, in my heart I knew he loved me