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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 Emmett Till | Death, Mother, Grave, & Facts | Britannica, carousel LAJA