Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955. He was accused of offending a white woman in her family’s grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States. Till posthumously became an icon of the civil rights movement.
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Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955. He was accused of offending a white woman in her family’s grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States. Till posthumously became an icon of the civil rights movement. Fifty-one sites in the Mississippi Delta are memorialized as associated with Till. An Emmett Till Memorial Commission was established in the early 21st century. The Delta region encompasses the large, multi-county area of northwestern Mississippi in the watershed of the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers. The city of Oxford is named after Till’s mother, Mamie Carthan Louis Till. The town of Argo, Mississippi, was named for Till’s father, Louis Till, who was born in the small town of Webb, Mississippi. The state of Mississippi was the poorest in the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s, with some of the poorest counties in the state in the Delta and some in some rural counties of the South. The Mississippi Delta region was often used by recent migrants as a way to find jobs and housing while they were trying to escape violence, lack of opportunity and unequal treatment under the Southern law. It was named Little Mississippi, after the town where Till was born and his mother’s mother’s maiden name, Carthan Carthan.
It is also known as Little Missoula, which was the town of Till’s great-uncle’s name, and Little Missouria, which is the state capital. The area of Money, Mississippi is known as the birthplace of the Delta Delta region, and it was the site of the Great Migration of rural families to the North in the 1930s and 1940s. The region was named after the little town of Little Missouls, where Till’s grandfather, Louis Carthan, was born, and where his mother was born. The river where Till died is called the Tallahatchie River, and is located near Money, in the northern part of the state. The delta region is known for its history of slavery and violence, especially in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when it was still under the control of the Ku Klux Klan. The current mayor of Money is the son of a former mayor of the same town, William Till, and the current mayor is the grandson of the late James Till, a former Mayor of Money and former Sheriff of Money. The mayor of Little Mississippi is the daughter of Mamie Till Bradley, who died in a car crash in 1968. The son of Louis and Mamie, Till was buried in a public funeral service with an open casket which was held at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ. The boy’s body was discovered and retrieved from the river three days later, and his body was returned to Chicago where his family held a memorial service for him.
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