28 August 1955
LynchingSupplement
Murder of Emmett Till
Mississippi; a fourteen-year-old Black boy and his family
White men abducted and murdered Till. Mamie Till-Mobley’s insistence on public witness to her son’s injuries helped expose racial terror to a national audience.
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Context / qualification
The event and later investigations should be separated; allegations against Till did not justify violence.