• Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the...
    144 KB (17,549 words) - 06:22, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Emmett Till Antilynching Act
    The Emmett Till Antilynching Act is a United States federal law which defines lynching as a federal hate crime, increasing the maximum penalty to 30 years...
    16 KB (1,206 words) - 10:54, 31 March 2024
  • the true story of Mamie Till-Bradley, an educator and activist who pursued justice after the murder of her 14-year-old son Emmett in August 1955. The film...
    62 KB (4,422 words) - 02:43, 30 March 2024
  • Till-Mobley (born Mamie Elizabeth Carthan; November 23, 1921 – January 6, 2003) was an American educator and activist. She was the mother of Emmett Till...
    23 KB (2,829 words) - 04:13, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louis Till
    found guilty and was executed by hanging at Aversa. Till was the estranged father of Emmett Till, whose murder in August 1955 at the age of 14 galvanized...
    26 KB (3,416 words) - 04:07, 27 April 2024
  • Death of Emmett Till", also known as "The Ballad of Emmett Till", is a song by the American musician Bob Dylan about the murder of Emmett Till. Till, a 14-year-old...
    3 KB (306 words) - 00:05, 22 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument
    The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument is a United States national monument that honors Emmett Till, an African American boy who was abducted...
    5 KB (333 words) - 17:09, 12 January 2024
  • The Murder of Emmett Till is a 2003 documentary film produced by Firelight Media that aired on the PBS program American Experience. The film chronicles...
    3 KB (272 words) - 16:10, 13 February 2024
  • known for his extensive investigation of and films about the lynching of Emmett Till. Beauchamp was born in 1971 and grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He...
    16 KB (1,473 words) - 01:02, 16 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Jalyn Hall
    role as Dillon James on All American and was cast as Emmett Till in the 2022 biographical film Till. Hall was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2018...
    5 KB (228 words) - 05:37, 29 April 2024
  • Montgomery bus boycott, a 14-year-old African American from Chicago named Emmett Till was murdered by two white men, John W. Milam and Roy Bryant. The picture...
    55 KB (6,204 words) - 10:23, 26 April 2024
  • producer, and conceptual theater artist. She wrote the play The Ballad of Emmett Till, which earned her the Edgar Award for Best Play in 2009. She is the sister...
    9 KB (972 words) - 18:10, 8 March 2024
  • A statue of Emmett Till was unveiled in Greenwood, Mississippi's Rail Spike Park in October 2022. State senator David Lee Jordan allocated $150,000 (equivalent...
    5 KB (364 words) - 10:56, 31 March 2024
  • prominent role in the investigation of the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till in the late 1950s. He was also president of the National Medical Association...
    24 KB (3,001 words) - 03:29, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lynching in the United States
    after Emmett Till's killing and the end of the lynching era, the United States Congress passed anti-lynching legislation in the form of the Emmett Till Antilynching...
    178 KB (20,826 words) - 22:18, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Civil rights movement
    Murder of Emmett Till; Interview with Mamie Till Mobley, mother of Emmett Till, retrieved June 10, 2020 "How The Horrific Photograph Of Emmett Till Helped...
    295 KB (34,006 words) - 15:48, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rosa Parks
    registering to vote on her third try.: 690  In August 1955, black teenager Emmett Till was brutally murdered after reportedly flirting with a young white woman...
    131 KB (13,100 words) - 05:29, 8 April 2024
  • I Am More Than a Wolf Whistle (category Emmett Till)
    Donham, the white woman who accused the African-American 14-year-old Emmett Till of touching her hand and flirting with her at her store in 1955, an incident...
    14 KB (1,436 words) - 18:35, 9 April 2024
  • Story of the Emmett Till Case is a 2003 young adult non-fiction book by American author Chris Crowe. The book details the history of Emmett Till, a teenaged...
    5 KB (600 words) - 23:02, 8 December 2023
  • Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The church was the site of Emmett Till's open-casket funeral in 1955. The church was designated as a Chicago...
    5 KB (564 words) - 21:25, 6 March 2024
  • Willie Louis (category Emmett Till)
    1937 – July 18, 2013) was a witness to the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till. Till was an African-American child from Chicago who was murdered in 1955...
    11 KB (1,488 words) - 18:46, 8 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Andre Braugher
    produced by Unity Productions Foundation. He narrated The Murder of Emmett Till for PBS. He played Detective Marcellus Washington in the TV series Hack...
    52 KB (2,717 words) - 02:42, 29 April 2024
  • an American lawyer, best known for acting as lead prosecutor in the Emmett Till case in 1955. Chatham was born in Hernando, Mississippi in 1906. He attended...
    3 KB (275 words) - 02:17, 26 April 2022
  • Thumbnail for Emmett Till: How She Sent Him and How She Got Him Back
    Emmett Till: How She Sent Him and How She Got Him Back is a painting completed by African-American artist, Lisa Whittington, in 2012. The painting is...
    7 KB (728 words) - 22:00, 16 February 2024
  • was also adapted into a play. In 2017, Tyson published The Blood of Emmett Till, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and was longlisted for the...
    13 KB (1,498 words) - 21:26, 15 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Money, Mississippi
    Money, Mississippi (category Emmett Till)
    Money is the site of events leading to the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till. The settlement was named for Hernando Money, a United States Senator...
    9 KB (682 words) - 20:55, 29 March 2024
  • Open Casket (category Emmett Till)
    Open Casket is a 2016 painting by Dana Schutz. The subject is Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old boy who was lynched by two white men in Mississippi in...
    14 KB (1,648 words) - 03:13, 15 March 2024
  • are relatives of Carolyn Bryant, a white woman who accused the teenage Emmett Till of making sexual advances at her leading to his lynching and death. Ed...
    7 KB (745 words) - 10:50, 16 February 2024
  • breakthrough directors of 2016. Caple recently wrote HBO's high-profile Emmett Till project, produced by Will Smith, Casey Affleck and Jay-Z. The six-episode...
    7 KB (544 words) - 21:59, 22 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Lynching
    Emmett Till' Still Stains America Today". The Atlantic. Retrieved July 3, 2017. Whitfield, Stephen (1991). A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till...
    72 KB (7,766 words) - 10:51, 29 April 2024