EMMETT TILL: In 1955, a 14-year-old boy named Emmett Till was lynched, or killed by hanging in Money, Mississippi. He had been accused of whistling at a white woman. The two men responsible for killing him were set free with no punishment. This injustice is considered to have sparked the Civil Rights Movement.
Mamie Till Bradley, supported, from left, by Bishop Louis H. Ford, Gene Mobley, and Bishop Isaiah Roberts, as her slain son’s body arrives in Chicago, 1955. Inset, Emmett Till and his mother, 1950.
Vanity Fair, February 6, 2017
Tombstone of Emmett Till ( 1941-1955)
The Washington Post, September 26, 2019
“Let the people see what they did to my boy,” Mamie Till-Mobley declared as justification for holding an open casket funeral for her son, Emmett.
Forbes, August 26, 2020
Emmett Till
Encyclopædia Britannica, 9 Sep. 2020.
Emmett Till
Contemporary Black Biography, vol. 7, Gale, 1994
Emmett Till
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, Macmillan Reference USA, 2006.
The murder of Emmett Louis Till, revisited
New York Times, 11 Nov. 2002, p. A2
The Murder of Emmett Till by 
A Wreath for Emmett Till by 
Emmett Till cousin on inquiry: "What is the holdup?"
60 years on, Emmett Till's family visits the site of his "crime" and death