Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African-American boy who, at 14 years old, was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a …

Dec 30, 2025 · Emmett Till was a 14-year-old Black teenager who was abducted, beaten, and lynched by two white men in 1955. His murder galvanized the emerging civil rights movement …

Dec 2, 2009 · Emmett Till, a 14-year old Black youth, was murdered in August 1955 in a racist attack that shocked the nation and provided a catalyst for the emerging civil rights movement. …

While visiting his relatives in Mississippi, Till went to the Bryant store with his cousins, and may have whistled at Carolyn Bryant. Her husband, Roy Bryant, and brother-in-law, J.W. Milam, …

Emmett Till was just a child when he was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by white supremacists in the Jim Crow South in 1955. They tried to cover it up. Emmett’s mother, …

Sep 26, 2024 · In August and September of 1955, a series of tragic events in rural Mississippi and Chicago’s South Side brought a 14-year-old African American boy’s lynching to national …

Learn about the life and legacy of Emmett Till. Learn how Mamie Till-Mobley inspired others to fight for justice and civil rights.

Emmett Louis Till was born on July 25, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois and was murdered at the age of 14 on August 28, 1955. In August 1955, Emmett’’s great uncle, Moses Wright, came up from …

At 2 a.m. on Aug. 28, 1955, Carolyn Bryant’s husband Roy and his brother J.W. Milam arrived at Moses Wright’s home and abducted Emmett Till. They took him to a barn where they, along …

Jan 27, 2025 · Emmett Till’s murder is part of a much larger story about racial violence that goes back to the aftermath of the Civil War (1861-65), when enslaved people in the South tasted …