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Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was a 14-year-old African American youth, who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store.
An undated portrait of Emmett Louis Till, a Black 14 year old Chicago boy, whose weighted down body was found in the Tallahatchie River near the Delta community of Money, Mississippi, August 31, 1955.
Emmett Till’s mother, Mamie, cries over her son’s casket at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, September 6, 1955. getty images Patton was white and Black. He was Mississippi—one part of ...
Over 100,000 people attended Till’s funeral and saw his bruised and beaten body firsthand. Elliott Gorn, author of “Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till,” says the murder was a ...
The Justice Department is continuing its investigation into the killing of Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose slaying 65 years... View Article The post Report: Emmett Till slaying still being ...
The U.S. Justice Department said Monday it is ending its investigation into the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed after witnesses ...
The historical sign marking where Emmett Till's body was found is now riddled with bullet holes. The damage was discovered last week in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. A film student from North ...
Emmett Till: How She Sent Him and How She Got Him Back is a painting completed by African-American artist Lisa Whittington in 2012. The painting is a portrait of a 14-year-old boy named Emmett Till. In 1955, he was visiting family in Money, Mississippi, from Chicago, when he was kidnapped and lynched by two white men for offending a white woman.