"Emmett Till: The Tragedy That Ignited the Civil Rights Movement | Full Documentary"

Chapter 1 | The Murder of Emmett Till | American Experience | PBS

The story of Emmett Till is a stark and heartbreaking chapter in American history. In 1955, Emmett, a 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago, traveled to visit family in Money, Mississippi. There, he was accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in a grocery store. Days later, her husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, abducted Emmett from his relatives’ home, brutally beat and murdered him, and dumped his body in the Tallahatchie River. When his mother, Mamie Ti

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