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    May 26, 2024 · Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American teenager who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long history of ...

  2. May 10, 2024 · Mamie Till-Mobley was an American educator and activist who helped galvanize the emerging civil rights movement after her son, Emmett Till, was murdered in 1955 for allegedly flirting with a white grocery store clerk in Mississippi.

  3. May 28, 2024 · Through archival photos and footage as well as deeply felt interviews, it tells the tragic story of Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago who was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he whistled at a white woman in the street.

  4. May 25, 2024 · The Murder of Emmett Till On August 28, 1955, Mamies world was shattered when her beloved son, Emmett, was brutally murdered while visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi. The 14-year-old boy was abducted, tortured, and killed by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam after being accused of whistling at Bryant‘s wife, Carolyn.

  5. May 29, 2024 · The tiny town of five streets boasts 18 signs dedicated to the memory of Emmett Tills 1955 murder.

  6. May 15, 2024 · The Blood of Emmett Till recalls to mind the 2015 massacre of nine black parishioners in a Charleston church and the 1998 murder of James Byrd Jr., a black man who was abducted by three white...

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  8. May 29, 2024 · The murder of Emmett Till and its aftermath, a watershed moment in American history, is revisited in a moving, educational and hope-inspiring traveling exhibition at the Spencer Museum of Art, “Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See.”

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