Emmett till biography summary
Emmett till biography summary
Emmett till biography timeline.
Emmett Till
African American lynching victim (1941–1955)
"Death of Emmett Till" redirects here. For the song by Bob Dylan, see The Death of Emmett Till.
Emmett Till | |
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Till in a photograph taken by his mother on Christmas Day, 1954 | |
| Born | Emmett Louis Till (1941-07-25)July 25, 1941 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | August 28, 1955(1955-08-28) (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 | |
| Awards | Congressional Gold Medal (posthumous, 2022) |
Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was a 14-year-old African American youth 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 drew attention to the long history of viol