their power, because if they do, they might as well die, just like Emmett Till did. With the fear of their lives being turned upside down, Bryant and Milam wanted to make up for their absence by not being able to protect Caroline during her confrontation; as such, they killed Till to show other black individuals that if they could do it to a young boy from Chicago, then they could do it to anyone else. As second-class citizens, many black individuals chose to migrate to Northern cities from the South due to unfair working conditions to gain greater opportunities. Those who moved were angriest about the disenfranchisement, segregation, and lynching that had occurred and were the most eager to achieve social and political equality (Halttunen Faulkner describes in his essay On Fear, White Southern Men Were Afraid “that the The Negro, who has done so much without any chance, could do so much more with an equal equal that he could take away from himself the white man's economy, the Negro now banker or merchant or planter and the man white sharecropper or tenant” (Faulkner, 31). Faulkner further explains that a black person should not have economic equality, as whites feared that providing them with greater social equality would jeopardize their current status (Faulkner, 34) too experienced and wealthy as they integrated with the whites forcing the whites to strategically lynch the blacks to prevent them from diminishing their superiority. Till was murdered in the summer before the first year of the schools desegregated in the South. . The U.S. Supreme Court banned segregation after Brown v. Board of Education. White Mississippians strongly opposed the integration of blacks because it would mean giving up their privileges and ignoring the values ​​that had been passed down from one generation to the next. Many white individuals did not want blacks to receive an education as they feared that blacks would challenge their supremacy and were not content with working in the fields or in domestic service. Bryant and Milam's act was a larger battle between the federal government and Mississippi as it was a desperate measure needed to maintain their Jim Crow lifestyle. Milam describes in his interview with Look: "Damn you, I'll make an example of you, just so everyone can know how I and the people are" (The Confession). Black individuals living in the South were