Emmett Louis Till murdered or death by force in Drew, Mississippi.

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Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago, was brutally murdered on August 28, 1955, in Drew, Mississippi. Till was visiting relatives in the Mississippi Delta region during the summer of 1955. On August 24, 1955, he allegedly whistled at Carolyn Bryant, a white woman who owned a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. This act, perceived as a violation of the racial norms of the Jim Crow-era South, led to his abduction and murder.

In the early hours of August 28, ...Read More