Emmett Till Biography, Age, Weight, Height, Friend, Like, Affairs, Favourite, Birthdate & Other

Emmett Till was an African-American teenager who was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman. His death, which took place at the time when racial hatred and crimes against blacks were mounting, marked a turning point in the emerging Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Till was a young boy of 14 when he was accused of misbehavior by a white woman who alleged that he made sexual advances towards her and tried to molest her.

Days later, the teenager’s badly mutilated body was pulled out of a river, shocking the collective conscience of the American society. Enraged by the brutality with which her only son had been murdered, Emmett’s mother held an open funeral which allowed the public to witness the horrors the teenager’s body had been subjected to. This shocking incident helped shed light on the racial violence and lynching of blacks that was so prevalent in the Mississippi area.

While it was public knowledge that the boy had been kidnapped by the woman’s husband and a relative, Till’s family could never get the justice they desperately sought. Though initially the law enforcement officials demanded justice for the slain boy, the killers were not convicted even after they publically admitted to the crime. This shocking incident, however, helped to galvanize the African-American Civil Rights Movement.