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Emmett Till

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African-American lynching victim (1941-1955)

United StatesLived 1941 to 1955 · aged 14
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Emmett Louis Till was an African-American boy who, at 14 years old, was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store.

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The Chicago two-flat at 6427 S. St. Lawrence Avenue where Emmett Till lived with his mother in mid-1955[18]The Chicago two-flat at 6427 S. St. Lawrence Avenue where Emmett Till lived with his mother in mid-1955[18]The remains of Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market in 2009The remains of Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market in 2009Bryant's Grocery Mississippi Freedom Trail Marker, 2018Bryant's Grocery Mississippi Freedom Trail Marker, 2018Mamie Till at Emmett's funeralMamie Till at Emmett's funeralTill's mother looks over his mutilated corpse. With her is her fiancé Gene Mobley. Mamie Till had insisted on an open-casket funeral. Images of Till's body, printed in The Chicago Defender and Jet magazine, made international news and directed attention to the oppression of blacks in the U.S. South.Till's mother looks over his mutilated corpse. With her is her fiancé Gene Mobley. Mamie Till had insisted on an open-casket funeral. Images of Till's body, printed in The Chicago Defender and Jet magazine, made international news and directed attention to the oppression of blacks in the U.S. South.Till's grave at Burr Oak CemeteryTill's grave at Burr Oak CemeteryBryant (left) and Milam (center) conferring with their attorneyBryant (left) and Milam (center) conferring with their attorney

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2023Congressional Gold Medal

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Michael CollinsAlso won Congressional Gold MedalGeorge GershwinAlso won Congressional Gold MedalGeorge MarshallAlso won Congressional Gold MedalJesse OwensAlso won Congressional Gold MedalRobert F. KennedyAlso won Congressional Gold MedalBen FerenczAlso won Congressional Gold Medal

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Emmett Louis Till was an African-American boy who, at 14 years old, was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States. Till posthumously became an icon of the civil rights movement.

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United States
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deceased
Dates
Lived 1941 to 1955 · aged 14
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