On August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. His assailants—the white woman’s husband and his brother—made Emmett carry a 75-...
August 28, 2015 marked 60 years since 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered after reportedly making an innocent, but fatal, mistake: Whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. In 2004, 60 Minutes correspondent Ed Bradley interviewed two of Till's cousins, who witnessed what happened and recount...
Four months after the trial, knowing that double jeopardy protected them from being tried again, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam admitted to a reporter from Look magazine that they had, in fact, tortured and murdered Emmett Till. They were paid $4,000 for their story. The Shocking Story of A...
Emmett Till (1941-1955) Background and Early Years: Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till was born on July 25, 1941 and was a 14-year-old Black boy from Chicago who was brutally murdered in Money, Miss., a small town in the state's delta region. His murder has been cited as one of the key...
What is the true story of Emmett Till? While visiting family in Money, Mississippi, Emmett Till was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. Who was Emmett Till and why was he important? Emmett Till was a 14-year-old Black teenager. He was abducted, ...
The investigation into the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi nearly 70 years ago ended as it began, with a mystery that might never be solved.
“The fact remains that the people who abducted, tortured, and murdered Emmett did so in plain sight, and our American justice system was and continues to be set up in such a way that they could not be brought to justice for their heinous crimes.” Ollie Gordon, another one o...
“The fact remains that the people who abducted, tortured, and murdered Emmett did so in plain sight, and our American justice system was and continues to be set up in such a way that they could not be brought to justice for their heinous crimes.” Ollie Gordon, another one of Til...
Till’s murder has long been viewed as one of the main events that set off the civil-rights movement in America in the 1950s, and has been referenced in everything fromToni Morrison’s playDreaming Emmettto aBob Dylansong to a Langston Hughespoem. ...
Emmett was dragged out of bed and was beaten and murdered by Bryant and Milam. After that, he was tied to a cotton gin fan and was thrown into the river. But when Bryant and Milam went to court for murdering Emmett, the judge decided that they were not guilty. Emmett Till was a ...