Three days after arriving in Money, Mississippi, on August 24, 1955, Emmett Till and a group of teenagers entered Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market to buy refreshments after a long day picking cotton in the hot afternoon sun. At the end of his stay, Wright was planning to take Till’s cousin, Wheeler Parker, back to Mississippi with him to visit relatives down South, and when Till learned of these plans he begged his mother to let him go along. In August 1955, Till’s great uncle Moses Wright came up from Mississippi to visit the family in Chicago. ![]() READ MORE: Emmett Till and 4 Black Americans Whose Killings Provoked Outrage and Activism Carolyn Bryant Till never knew his father, a private in the United States Army during World War II. WATCH: Voices of Civil Rights on HISTORY Vault Early YearsĮmmett Louis Till was born on Jin Chicago, Illinois, the only child of Louis and Mamie Till. ![]() Till’s murderers were acquitted, but his death galvanized civil rights activists nationwide. Till’s devastated mother insisted on a public, open-casket funeral for her son to shed light on the violence inflicted on Black people in the South. Several days later, relatives of the woman abducted Till, brutally beating and killing him before disposing of his body in a nearby river. A Chicago native, Till was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, when he was accused of harassing a local white woman. ![]() 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.
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