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  1. Jan 7, 2022 · J.W. Milam (center) and Roy Bryant (right) Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy visiting family in Mississippi from Chicago, was brutally murdered in August 1955. J.W. Milam and his brother Roy Bryant, both white, were charged with the crime. Unfortunately, to no one's surprise, they were acquitted by an all-white, male jury.

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    Awards. Congressional Gold Medal (posthumous, 2022) Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American teenager 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 ...

  3. Jan 24, 2024 · 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 ... "And the fact that it happened to a child, that ...

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  4. Dec 2, 2009 · Bettmann Archive/Getty Images. 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 ...

  5. Jul 22, 2021 · Emmett Till was killed early on the morning of August 28, 1955, one month and three days after his 14th birthday. His mother’s decision to show his body in an open casket, to allow Jet magazine ...

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  6. Sep 13, 2018 · 3:10. Although the Emmett Till case is considered by many as the catalyst for the civil rights movement, after Look magazine published the account of the kidnapping and murder as given by J. W ...

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  8. Sep 29, 2024 · Funeral of Emmett Till Mamie Till (center) with other mourners at the funeral of her son, Emmett Till, in Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois, September 6, 1955. (more) Wright reported the kidnapping to the police, and Bryant and Milam were arrested the following day. On August 31, 1955, Till’s corpse was discovered in the river.

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