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Apparently, he was murdered by Jim Crow Democrats.
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Emmett Till
Till in a photograph taken by his mother on Christmas Day, 1954
Born Emmett Louis Till
July 25, 1941
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died August 28, 1955 (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
Mamie Carthan Till-Mobley
Louis Till
Awards Congressional Gold Medal (posthumous, 2022)
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Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14, 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 civil rights movement.[2]
Till was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. During summer vacation in August 1955, he was visiting relatives near Money, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region. He spoke to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, the white, married proprietor of a small grocery store there. Although what happened at the store is a matter of dispute, Till was accused of flirting with, touching, or whistling at Bryant. Till's interaction with Bryant, perhaps unwittingly, violated the unwritten code of behavior for a black male interacting with a white female in the Jim Crow-era South.[3] Several nights after the incident in the store, Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam, who were armed, went to Till's great-uncle's house and abducted Emmett. They took him away then beat and mutilated him before shooting him in the head and sinking his body in the Tallahatchie River. Three days later, the boy's mutilated and bloated body was discovered and retrieved from the river.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till