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Jan 24, 2024 · The brutal abduction and murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till on August 28, 1955, galvanized the emerging civil rights movement.
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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.
Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago, was kidnapped and lynched while visiting family on summer vacation in Mississippi in August 1955. His brutal death brought attention to pervasive racist violence and helped inspire the modern Civil Rights Movement.
The 1955 abduction and murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till helped ignite the civil rights movement. A month after the Till lynching, Martin Luther King stated that it “might be considered one of the most brutal and inhuman crimes of the twentieth century” (Papers 6:232).
Apr 5, 2019 · The shave came just before the half brothers were arraigned in Sumner, Miss., on Sept. 6, 1955, on charges they kidnapped and murdered Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago. At right, deputy sheriff G. Melton.
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