The Murder And Lynching Of Emmett Till: The Book The Movie The Untold Story

Emmett Till was a 14-year-old black boy, who was brutally lynched in Money, Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder plus the fact that Emmett's killers were acquitted, drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of Black Americans in the United States.

Emmett was born and raised in Chicago. During summer vacation in August 1955, he was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi. He spoke to 21-...