On August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-oldEmmett Till, an African American fromChicago, isbrutally murderedfor allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. His assailants—the white woman’s husband and his brother—made Emmett carry a 75-pound co...
The Death of Emmett Till There are several views of the murder of Emmett Till regarding the topic of whether or not he received justice. Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old boy, was murdered purely based on racism, because he was killed for “wolf-whistling” at a white woman in August 195...
October is the publication date of Death of Innocence , a powerful memoir by Emmett Till's late mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, and Christopher Benson of Ebony - Random House, $24.95, ISBN 1-400-06117-2 - Deals
Before Emmett Till's murder, I had known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. But now there was a new fear known to me - the fear of being killed just because I was black. This was the worst of my fears. I knew once I got food, the fear of starving to death would leave...
Till-Mobley, Mamie, and Benson, Christopher,Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America, Random House, New York, 2003. Whitfield, Stephen J.,A Death In The Delta: The Story of Emmett Till, The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1988....
“In her new film Till, Chinonye Chukwu has crafted a bracing portrait of the short life of Emmett Till and the fearless activism of his mother, Mamie Till, whose fight for justice following the murder of her son was a catalyst for the ongoing battle for civil rights in our country,” ...
Emmett Till (1941–55) was a Black teenager whose murder in Mississippi catalyzed the emerging civil rights movement in the United States.