Emmett Till

Murdered

A 14 year old boy is brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago, was brutally murdered on August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi. His murder became one of the most infamous and tragic cases in the history of the American civil rights movement. The events began when Till allegedly whistled at Carolyn Bryant, a white woman, in a grocery store. This minor incident escalated into a deadly act of racial violence when Roy Bryant, Carolyn’s husband, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam ...Read More

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