Emmett Till was born in Chicago and grew up in a middle-class Black neighborhood. Till was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, in 1955 when the fourteen-year-old was accused of whistling at Carolyn Bryant, a white woman who was a cashier at a grocery store. Four days later, Bryant...
After the trial, bitterly ironic information about the father Emmett had never known, Louis Till, came to light. It was already widely reported that Louis Till had been a soldier in World War II at the time of his death. An Oct. 10, 1955 editorial inLifemagazine wrote that the elder Ti...
Emmett Till and his mother in 1955. In August, 1955, Emmett, now aged 14, was sent by his mother to visit relatives near Money, Mississippi. Emmett stayed at the home of his uncle, Moses Wright. During the evening of 24th August, Emmett, Simeon Wright, and a group of his friends, ...
The article presents a summary of the 1955 trial of J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant for the murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy visiting Money, Mississippi from Chicago, Illinois. Milam and Bryant were found innocent following a short jury deliberation, but later published ...
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The article discusses the plan of Florida State University Libraries' Special Collections and Archives Division to establish a research collection on Emmett Till, an African American teenager who was murdered in 1955, which will feature newspaper coverage of his murder trial and court proceedings....