CAUSE OF DEATH: HOMICIDE WHERE: money, Mississippi, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WHEN: AUGUST 28, 1955 ~ EMMIT LOUIS TILL ~ was an African-American teenager who was BRUTALLY murdered in Mississippi at the YOUNG age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. I REPEAT reportedly because I dont believe shit they SAY. YOUNG EMMITT was from Chicago, Illinois, visiting his relatives in Money, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region, when he spoke to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, the married proprietor of a small grocery store there. Several nights later, Bryants husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam went to Tills great-uncles house. They took Till away to a barn, where they beat him and gouged out one of his eyes, before shooting him through the head and disposing of his body in the Tallahatchie River, weighting it with a 70-pound (32 kg) cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire. Three days later, Tills body was discovered and retrieved from the river.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 08:38:58 +0000
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