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Unsolved August 28, 1955 Homicide

Emmett Till

Status Unsolved
Type Homicide
Date August 28, 1955
Location Money, Mississippi
Victim Age 14
Gender Male

Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago, was brutally murdered in Money, Mississippi after allegedly whistling at a white woman. His killers Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were acquitted by an all-white jury in September 1955. They later confessed to the murder in a magazine interview, immune from prosecution. The case became a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.

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