Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African-American boy who, at 14 years old, was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a …

Nov 25, 2025 · Emmett Till was a 14-year-old Black teenager who was abducted, beaten, and lynched by two white men in 1955. His murder galvanized the emerging civil rights movement …

Dec 2, 2009 · Emmett Till, a 14-year old Black youth, was murdered in August 1955 in a racist attack that shocked the nation and provided a catalyst for the emerging civil rights movement.

Apr 27, 2023 · While Emmett, who was nicknamed Bobo, was an only child, he lived with his mother, grandparents and cousins in a middle-class Black neighborhood on the South Side.

Jul 25, 2025 · Emmett Till’s death shocked millions of people across America and was a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement, but many facts about his life and his murder remained unknown …

At 2 a.m. on Aug. 28, 1955, Carolyn Bryant’s husband Roy and his brother J.W. Milam arrived at Moses Wright’s home and abducted Emmett Till. They took him to a barn where they, along …

Sep 26, 2024 · Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley, ca. 1954. NAACP Records, Library of Congress Mississippi Beginnings Mamie Till-Mobley (née Carthan) was born in Webb, …

The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 brought nationwide attention to the racial violence and injustice prevalent in Mississippi. While visiting his relatives in Mississippi, Till went to the …

Emmett Till was raised in a middle-class Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. By the summer of 1955, 14-year-old Emmett was a popular classmate at McCosh Grammar School, …

Till's story broke many silences and aversions to the truth about the systematic reality of violence and oppression that was bred throughout the Jim Crow South. The murder of Emmett Till is an …