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In August 1955, 14-year-old African American Emmett Till was murdered for whistling at a white woman at a store in Money, Mississippi. The woman's relatives kidnapped Till and murdered him, leaving his body in a river.
Aug 17, 2005 · The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till: Directed by Keith Beauchamp. With Mamie Till Mobley, Wheeler Parker, Simeon Wright, Ruthie Mae Crawford. Never-before-seen testimony is included in this documentary on Emmett Louis Till, who, in 1955, was brutally murdered after he whistled at a white woman.
Oct 13, 2005 · A documentary that reopens the case of the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, a black teenager killed by white men in Mississippi. The film features interviews, archival footage and the courage of his mother, who insisted on an open-casket funeral.
Dec 2, 2009 · Learn about the life and legacy of 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 insisted on an open-casket funeral, how his killers were acquitted and how his case was reopened in 2022.
Aug 17, 2005 · In Mississippi during the '50s, a black teenager named Emmett Louis Till, who is from Chicago and visiting his great-uncle, whistles at a white woman in public. Not too long afterward, he is...
In August 1955, Mamie Till-Mobely of Chicago sent her only child, 14-year old Emmett Louis Till, to visit relatives in the Mississippi Delta. Little did she know that 8-days later, Emmett would be abducted from his Great-Uncle's home, brutally beaten and murdered for one of the oldest Southern...
Aug 13, 2005 · The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till is a painful reminder that reparations still need to be made for what whites have done to blacks in this country; most civil rights groups wouldn’t be able to tell you the nature of what those reparations should be, but Keith A. Beauchamp’s film argues that simply addressing the interracial violence in ...
