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Emmett Till was born to Mamie and Louis Till on July 25, 1941, in Chicago. Emmett's mother, Mamie [née Carthan], was born in the small Delta town of Webb, Mississippi.The Delta region encompasses the large, multi-county area of northwestern Mississippi in the watershed of the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers.
Drew, in northern Sunflower County, [11] is located on U.S. Route 49W, on the route between Jackson and Clarksdale. [12] Drew is 8 miles (13 km) south of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, [13] and it is north of Ruleville. [6] Cleveland, Mississippi is 12 miles (19 km) from Drew. Drew is north of Yazoo City. [9]
Willie Louis (born Willie Reed; June 14, 1937 – July 18, 2013) was a witness to the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till. [1] Till was an African-American child from Chicago who was murdered in 1955 after he had reportedly whistled at a white woman in a Money, Mississippi, grocery store.
Money is located on a railroad line along the Tallahatchie River, a tributary of the Yazoo River in the eastern part of the Mississippi Delta. The community has ZIP code 38945 in the Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area. Money is the site of events leading to the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till.
Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley [a] (born Mamie Elizabeth Carthan; November 23, 1921 – January 6, 2003) was the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old youth murdered in Mississippi on August 28, 1955, after being accused of offending a white grocery store cashier named Carolyn Bryant.
The photograph depicts Marilyn Monroe while her white dress blows upwards during a shot for a scene in the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch. [s 6] Jackie Robinson: 1955 Ralph Morse Bronx, New York, United States [s 2] Emmett Till's mother at his funeral. 1955 David Jackson Chicago, Illinois, United States [52] [s 3] [s 5]
28 August 1955 Emmett Till: Roy Bryant, J.W. Milam Drew, Mississippi, U.S. 14 Murdered Till, a black teenager, was abducted from his grandfather's home by two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, after Bryant's wife accused Till of harassing her.
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