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Emmett Till
African American lynching victim (1941–1955)
"Death of Emmett Till" redirects here. For the song by Bob Dylan, see The Death of Emmett Till.
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Till in a photograph taken by his mother on Christmas Day, 1954 | |
| Born | Emmett Louis Till (1941-07-25)July 25, 1941 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | August 28, 1955(1955-08-28) (aged 14) Drew, Mississippi, U.S.[1] |
| Cause of death | Lynching (bullet wound and mutilation) |
| Resting place | Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois |
| Education | James McCosh Elementary School |
| Parents | |
| Awards | Congressional Gold Medal (posthumous, 2022) |
Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was a 14-year-old African American youth, who was abducted 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
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Life
Emmett Louis Till (nicknamed “Bobo”), was born on July 25, 1941 to Mamie (née Carthan) Till-Mobley and Louis Till at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The Cook County Hospital was one of the only local facilities providing medical care to African Americans. Till’s birth was difficult, leaving him with facial scars. Doctors also initially believed that he would be permanently disabled, but he began walking at 11 months.
The Tills initially resided in Argo-Summit, a town outside of Chicago, where Mamie Till-Mobley’s family settled after moving from Mississippi as part of the Great Migration. This exodus of African Americans out of the South was ignited by long-standing racist violence and widespread economic, social, and political disparities between Black and White people. Louis worked at the Argo Corn Products Company, one of the primary employers of African American men in the town, including Mrs. Till-Mobley’s father, John Carthan.
Emmett’s parents separated when he was a toddler, and he and his mother remained in Argo-Summit. While in the first grade, he
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Emmett Till
(1941-1955)
Who Was Emmett Till?
Emmett Till was born in Chicago and grew up in a middle-class Black neighborhood. Till was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, in 1955 when the fourteen-year-old was accused of whistling at Carolyn Bryant, a white woman who was a cashier at a grocery store.
Four days later, Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J.W. Milam kidnapped Till, beat him and shot him in the head. The men were tried for murder, but an all-white, male jury acquitted them.
Till's murder and open casket funeral galvanized the emerging civil rights movement. More than six decades later, in January 2017, Timothy Tyson, author of The Blood of Emmett Till and a senior research scholar at Duke University, revealed that in a 2007 interview Carolyn admitted to him that she had lied about Till making advances toward her.
In 2018, the Justice Department said that it had received “new information” about Till’s death, and the FBI reopened an investigation into his murder.
Mother and Father
Till was the only child of Louis and Mamie Till. Till's moth
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