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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. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States. Till posthumously became an icon of the civil rights movement. Wikipedia
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 violent...
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- Born: July 25, 1941, Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Died: August 28, 1955, Drew, Mississippi, United States
- Cause of Death: Murdered
- Height: 5'6" (1.68m)
- Parents: Mamie Till, Louis Till
- Education: James McCosh Elementary School
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