Who is Emmet Till ?

Question

The name sounds familiar, but I quite figure out who it is.

Any details about him/her?

Answer 1

He was a young black man who lived in Alabama who talked to a white woman and was murdered over it.

Answer 2

He was a kid from Chicago who went to spend the summer in Mississippi with his grandmother. He whistled at a white woman and was brutally murdered.

Answer 3

If you live in Chicago, his name is mentioned often. He was the young teenager who made the mistake of whistling while a white woman was near. They don't even think he was whistling at her, she just took it that way. She went home and raised a ruckus The men in her family went seeking justice and beat him to a pulp and gouged his eyes out to "teach a lesson" to all the other black boys not to "even raise their eyebrows to a white woman". Then he was shot in the head, wrapped in barbed wire, tied to a heavy motor and thrown in the river. He was from Chicago and was visiting his uncle in Mississippi. The sheer brutality of this murder shocked the North into understanding how dangerous life was for the Blacks in the South and sparked a major involvement of Whites from the North in the Civil Rights movement.

Answer 4

Emmett Till was a black fourteen year old from Chicago, Illinois who was murdered in Money, Mississippi, a small town in the state's Delta region. The murder of Emmett Till was noted as one of the leading events that motivated the nascent American Civil Rights Movement. The main suspects were acquitted, but later admitted to committing the crime