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    Emmett Till

    African-American lynching victim

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  1. www.britannica.com › question › What-happened-toWhat happened to Emmett Till’s killers? | Britannica

    Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, the white men who killed Emmett Till, were arrested on August 29, 1955. They stood trial for Till’s murder in September of that year. The all-white, all-male jury deliberated for about an hour before acquitting Bryant and Milam of all charges. In 2004 the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI reopened the ...

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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Emmett_TillEmmett Till - Wikipedia

    Emmett Till. 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 ...

  4. www.history.com › topics › black-historyEmmett Till: Body, Death, Funeral & Face | HISTORY

    Dec 2, 2009 · Emmett Till Film and Legacy. In 2007, over 50 years after the murder, the woman who claimed Till harassed her recanted parts of her account. Speaking to a historian, the 72-year-old Carolyn Bryant ...

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  6. www.pbs.org › features › till-killers-confessionThe Murder of Emmett Till | American Experience | PBS

    Apr 15, 2023 · The murder trial of Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam laid bare the racism that ruled Mississippi. Emmett Till's body is taken to Chicago's Roberts Temple Church of God for viewing and ...

  7. www.nationalgeographic.com › history › articleHow Emmett Till’s murder catalyzed the U.S. civil rights movement

    Oct 28, 2022 · What happened to Emmett Till’s killers? In September 1955, J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant were tried for murder before a jury of all white men in a Tallahatchie County court. A Black teen named Willy ...

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  8. www.britannica.com › biography › Emmett-TillEmmett Till | Death, Mother, Grave, & Facts | Britannica

    May 1, 2024 · Emmett Till (born July 25, 1941, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died August 28, 1955, Money, Mississippi) was an African American teenager whose murder catalyzed the emerging civil rights movement. Till was born to working-class parents on the South Side of Chicago. When he was barely 14 years old, Till took a trip to rural Mississippi to spend the ...

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  10. www.nytimes.com › article › who-was-emmett-tillWho Was Emmett Till? - The New York Times

    Apr 27, 2023 · Emmett Louis Till was born on July 25, 1941, in Chicago. While Emmett, who was nicknamed Bobo, was an only child, he lived with his mother, grandparents and cousins in a middle-class Black ...

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