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Who Was Emmett Till?

Emmett Till was born in Chicago and grew up in a middle-class Black neighborhood.

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Till was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, in when the fourteen-year-old was accused of whistling at Carolyn Bryant, a white woman who was a cashier at a grocery store.

Four days later, Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J.W.

Milam kidnapped Till, beat him and shot him in the head. The men were tried for murder, but an all-white, male jury acquitted them.

Till's murder and open casket funeral galvanized the emerging civil rights movement. More than six decades later, in January , Timothy Tyson, author of The Blood of Emmett Till and a senior research scholar at Duke University, revealed that in a interview Carolyn admitted to him that she had lied about Till making advances toward her.

In , the Justice Department said that it had received “new information” about Till’s death, and the FBI reopened an investigation into his murder.

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