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Emmett Louis « Bobo » Till, né le 25 juillet 1941 à Chicago dans l'Illinois et mort assassiné le 28 août 1955 à Money dans le Mississippi, est un adolescent afro-américain qui fut lynché [1] et torturé à mort dans la région du Mississippi Delta aux États-Unis.
En 1955, l’assassinat au Mississippi d’un jeune Noir accusé d’avoir sifflé une femme blanche secoue les États-Unis, et joue un rôle primordial dans le déclenchement du mouvement pour les droits civiques.
16 nov. 2022 · Le 31 août 1955, le corps mutilé d’Emmett Till, adolescent âgé de 14 ans, fut découvert en train de flotter dans les eaux de la rivière Tallahatchie.
2 déc. 2009 · Learn about Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black youth who was murdered in 1955 in a racist attack that sparked the civil rights movement. Find out how his mother's open-casket funeral exposed the violence against Black people in the South and how his case was reopened in 2022.
Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American teenager who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store.
29 sept. 2024 · Emmett Till (born July 25, 1941, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died August 28, 1955, Money, Mississippi) was an African American teenager whose murder catalyzed the emerging civil rights movement. Till was born to working-class parents on the South Side of Chicago.
The alleged youthful teasing of 14-year-old African American Emmett Till with white store clerk Carolyn Bryant, on August 28, 1955, led to his brutal murder at the hands of Bryant’s husband Roy and his half-brother, J.W. Till's death was the catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.
