The Emmett Till died at the age of 14. Here is all you want to know, and more!
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African-American youth who was beaten and murdered for talking to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, a white woman, in 1955. His murder and subsequent trial were pivotal events in the instigation of the African-American Civl Rights Movement and were covered heavily in the 1987 Emmy award-winning series Eyes on the Prize.
His mother insisted that he had a public funeral with an open casket to publicize his death.