What did Emmett Till do?

Answer 1

As he was leaving a store, he whistled to the white woman who happened to own the store with her husband. Two days later the woman's husband and brother dragged Emmett out of his great uncle's house, beating, shooting, and dumping him in a river. They found him three days later. The only way they identified him was by his father's ring that his mother gave to Emmett right before he left Chicago.

Answer 2

Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy who was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after being falsely accused of flirting with a white woman. His murder and the acquittal of his killers brought national attention to the issue of racial violence and injustice in the United States.