Emmett Till
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Emmett Till Net Worth 2024, Height, Wiki, Age

Birthday

: 25 July 1941

Birthplace

: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Sign

: Leo

Died

: 28 August 1955

Lived

: 14 years

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He was an African-American teenager

Real name:	Emmett Louis Till
Born:	25 July 1941 Comment
When did Emmett Till die? / Died	28 August 1955
How many years did Emmett Till live? / Lived	14 years
Where was Emmett Till born?	Chicago, Illinois, USA
Where did Emmett Till die? / Deathplace	Money, Mississippi, United States
Zodiac sign:	Leo
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Nationality:	American

Who was Emmett Till? / Facts

He was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after a white woman named Carol Bryant lied and said that he harassed her
Till was from Chicago, Illinois, and visiting relatives in Money, a small town in the Mississippi Delta region
He spoke to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, the married proprietor of a small grocery store there
Several nights later, Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J.W. Milam went to Till's great-uncle's house and abducted the boy
They took him away and beat and mutilated him before shooting him and sinking his body in the Tallahatchie River
Three days later, Till's body was discovered and retrieved from the river
Till's body was returned to Chicago
His mother, who had mostly raised him, insisted on a public funeral service with an open casket to show the world the brutality of the killing
The open-coffin funeral held by Mamie Till Bradley exposed the world to more than her son Emmett Till's bloated, mutilated body
Her decision focused attention not only on American racism and the barbarism of lynching but also on the limitations and vulnerabilities of American democracy
Tens of thousands attended his funeral or viewed his casket and images of his mutilated body were published in black-oriented magazines and newspapers, rallying popular black support and white sympathy across the US
Intense scrutiny was brought to bear on the condition of black civil rights in Mississippi, with newspapers around the country critical of the state
Although initially local newspapers and law enforcement officials decried the violence against Till and called for justice, they soon began responding to public criticism by defending Mississippians, which eventually transformed into support for the killers
In September 1955, Bryant and Milam were acquitted of Till's kidnapping and murder
Protected against double jeopardy, Bryant and Milam publicly admitted in an interview with Look magazine that they killed Till
Problems identifying Till affected the trial, partially leading to Bryant's and Milam's acquittals, and the case was officially reopened by the United States Department of Justice in 2004
As part of the investigation, the body was exhumed and autopsied resulting in an identification
He was reburied in a new casket, which is the standard practice in cases of body exhumation
His original casket was donated to the Smithsonian Institution
The trial of Bryant and Milam attracted a vast amount of press attention
Till's murder is noted as a pivotal catalyst to the next phase of the Civil Rights Movement
Events surrounding Emmett Till's life and death, according to historians, continue to resonate
Some writers have suggested that almost every story about Mississippi returns to Till, or the region in which he died, in "some spiritual, homing way". During a 2007 interview—made public in 2017—Carolyn Bryant disclosed that she had fabricated her testimony of Till grabbing and verbally harassing her