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Bookmark or Share- Emmett Till - WikipediaEmmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14, after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store.
- Emmett Till's Death Inspired a Movement | National Museum of African ...The alleged youthful teasing of 14-year-old African American Emmett Till with white store clerk Carolyn Bryant, on August 28, 1955, led to his brutal murder at the hands of Bryant’s husband Roy and his half-brother, J.W. Till's death was the catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.
- How Emmett Till’s murder catalyzed the U.S. civil rights movementOn August 31, 1955, the mutilated body of 14-year-old Emmett Till was found floating in the Tallahatchie River. Beaten and murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman, the teen was one of...
- Emmett Till | Death, Mother, Grave, & Facts | BritannicaEmmett Till (born July 25, 1941, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died August 28, 1955, Money, Mississippi) African American teenager whose murder catalyzed the emerging civil rights movement. Till was born to working-class parents on the South Side of Chicago.
- Emmett Till: Body, Death, Funeral & Face | HISTORYEmmett Till, a 14-year old Black youth, was murdered in August 1955 in a racist attack that shocked the nation and provided a catalyst for the emerging civil rights movement. A Chicago native,...
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