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...head, through which his distraught mother said she could see daylight. Thousands of people came to his open-casket funeral, the black magazine Jet ran photos of his ruined face, and by the time an all-white jury acquitted Bryant's husband Roy and his half brother J.W. Milam in a sham trial, Till's death was a touchstone for black America, fueling support for the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott that same year. Whites were slower on the uptake, prompting a young singer named Bob Dylan to warn in 1963, "If you can't speak out against this kind...
...crime was more complex than the myth. Bryant and Milam, who later confessed in Look magazine, were perfect, arrogant villains, but few in Money, Miss., thought they had acted alone. Civil rights leaders and the African-American press turned up witnesses--some suggesting that two of Milam's black employees were accomplices. (Both denied it.) Mose Wright often described that fatal female voice, speculating that it must have been Carolyn Bryant's. (She could not be reached for comment.) Till's indomitable mother Mamie Till Mobley and her supporters vainly lobbied the government to reinvestigate. She died last year...
Malcolm regained his touch at the Ivy League Championships, earning a place on the All-Ivy team with a three-round total of 223 (72-78-73), good for third place and five strokes behind tournament winner James Milam of Princeton...
...honors by finishing in the top seven. His three-round total of 223 (72-78-73) tied him for third overall among the top 40 golfers in the Ivy League. Malcolm played his best golf of the spring, finishing five strokes behind Princeton’s James Milam, the tournament winner...
Round two proved to be the “moving” round as Princeton took a commanding lead while Harvard fell back in the pack. Milam shot the low round of the tournament, a 2-under 69, leading the Tigers to a total score of 288, 26 strokes better than Harvard’s Saturday effort. Sophomore Andrew Klein, however, shot his low round of 75 in the second round. Klein finished 10th overall, shooting 76-76-78 for a 13-over...