A 14 year old boy is brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman In the summer of 1955, a 14-year-old African American boy named Emmett Till traveled from his home in Chicago to visit relatives in Money, Mississippi. His trip took a tragic turn after an encounter at Bryant's Grocery & Meat Market on August 24th. Accounts of what transpired differ, but it was reported that Till whistled at, flirted with, or touched the hand or waist of Carolyn Bryant, a white woman who was the store's cashier.
Four days later, in the early morning hours of August 28, Ro
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