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Spencer Green / AP Images. In 1955, Emmett Till —a 14-year-old African-American visiting Mississippi from Chicago—was murdered after whistling at a white woman. His mother insisted that her son...
Sep 2, 2015 · Sixty years ago Jet magazine published photos of the disfigured and decomposed body of slain 14-year-old African American Emmett Till, rattling communities across the country and reigniting a...
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Aug 28, 2020 · Emmett Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, wanted the world to see “what they did to my baby.” His body looked monstrous, as if the 14-year-old had absorbed every blow of hate delivered by his killers — a photograph that ran in Jet magazine and many other African-American publications, but never appeared in the nation’s mainstream ...
Jul 10, 2016 · 60 years before the harrowing images of Philando Castile's and Alton Sterling's deaths, one photograph changed America's take on race.
Dec 2, 2009 · Did you know? In 2009, the original glass-topped casket that Emmett Till was buried in was acquired by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.
The image is transformed by a single, penetrating detail: a plaque affixed to the sign with the motto of the town where Till’s murderers were tried and acquitted—“Sumner, A Good Place to Raise a Boy.” Emmett Till in Casket, 1955. Courtesy Chicago Defender.
Jul 12, 2018 · The emotional photos at Emmett’s funeral captured Till-Mobley as she approached her son’s casket. Her body seemed to buckle. Photographers captured her leaning over the casket, to which...
The alleged youthful teasing of 14-year-old African American Emmett Till with white store clerk Carolyn Bryant, on August 28, 1955, led to his brutal murder at the hands of Bryant’s husband Roy and his half-brother, J.W. Till's death was the catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.
Fifty thousand people in Chicago saw Emmett Till's corpse with their own eyes. When the magazine Jet ran photos of the body, black Americans across the country shuddered.
