Emmett Till

Emmett Till was a 14-year-old Chicago teenager whose murder inspired the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. In the summer of 1955, he left Chicago, IL for a summer visit with relatives in Money, MS. After being falsely accused of whistling at and touching a white woman, he was kidnapped and murdered on August 28, 1955. The trial of his kidnappers and killers began on September 19, 1955, and after four days of testimony from eyewitnesses, an all-white, all-male jury acquitted his murderers of all charges. No one has ever been convicted of the kidnapping and murder, and Emmett Till, his mother Mamie Till-Mobley, and the entire Till-Mobley family are remembered for the great sacrifice that inspired the Civil Rights Movement in America.

Greenwood, Mississippi · United States