Emmett Till Story, Age, Mother, Injuries, Death & Facts
Emmett Till was an African American boy who was brutally murdered for racial reasons in the town of Money, Mississippi. His death is remembered as one of the key events that strengthened the nascent US civil rights movement.The main suspects were acquitted but later admitted that they had committed the crime. Till's mother demanded a public funeral ceremony for the son, with the coffin open, so that everyone could see how the boy had been tortured and murdered: he had been beaten, his eye was pulled out, he was shot, and 'they had finally thrown into the Tallahatchie River with a neck of a cotton gin (an instrument used for the processing of cotton) tied to the neck as ballast with barbed wire.The corpse remained in the river for three days before being discovered and recovered by ...