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  1. May 1, 2024 · Till arrived in Money, Mississippi, on August 21, 1955. He stayed with his great-uncle, Moses Wright, who was a sharecropper, and he spent his days helping with the cotton harvest. On August 24, Till and a group of other teens went to a local grocery store after a day of working in the fields. Accounts of what transpired thereafter vary.

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    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 ...

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    • August 28, 1955 (aged 14), Drew, Mississippi, U.S.
    • Emmett Louis Till, July 25, 1941, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
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  4. Jan 24, 2024 · Childhood. Till, who went by the nickname Bobo, was born on July 25, 1941, in Chicago. ... and Emmett took it upon himself. He told me if I would work, and make the money, he would take care of ...

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  5. Aug 7, 2023 · After graduating from high school, she married Louis Till. Their only child, Emmett, was born in 1941. Known as a fun-loving jokester, Emmett spent his childhood in Argo-Summit, then Chicago’s South Side. Though polio left him with a stutter, his illness did not diminish his enthusiasm for life.

  6. The Emmett Till Story. Emmett Louis Till was born on July 25, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois and was murdered at the age of 14 on August 28, 1955. In August 1955, Emmett’’s great uncle, Moses Wright, came up from Mississippi to visit the family and attend a funeral in Chicago. At the end of his stay, Wright was planning to take Till’s cousin ...

  7. Oct 29, 2021 · Description. Emmett Till was a fourteen-year-old African-American boy from Chicago, Illinois who went to visit his family in Mississippi in 1955 before the start of a new school year.

  8. He did live on the segregated South Side during his last few years, but most of his life was spent in Summit, Illinois, a tight-knit industrial community of 12,000 people just outside of Chicago. On July 25, 1941, Emmett was born in Cook County Hospital in Chicago.

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