Social Movements & Civil Rights

Lynching of Emmett Till in Mississippi

Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American, was lynched after he allegedly whistled at a white woman named Carolyn Bryant in Money, Mississippi. After being kidnapped from his great-uncle's home, Till's mutilated body was found in the Tallahatchie River days later. His mother, Mamie Till, insisted on an open-casket funeral to show the brutality of the crime, which drew national attention and outrage, highlighting racial violence in America.

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