Death of Emmett Till #1093
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The Murder of Emmett Till
" Twas down in Mississippi no so long ago.
When a young boy from Chicago town
stepped through a Southern door.This
boy's dreaful tragedy I can still remember
well, The color of his skin was black and
his name was Emmett Till."
Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African-American teenager from Chicago, Illinois who was brutally murdered in a region of Mississippi known as the Mississippi Delta in the small town of Money in Leflore County. His murder was one of the key events that energized the nascent American Civil Rights Movement. The main suspects for the crime--both caucasian men--were acquitted, but later admitted to committing the crime. Till's mother had an open casket funeral to let everyone see how her son had been brutally killed.
