What was the worst killing from the KKK?

Answer 1

The killing of Emmett till in Mississippi was one of the triggers of the African American equal rights movement and can be considered one of the most grizzly brutal killings by associates of the KKK. Two men took the boy for whistling at one of their wives and they took him to an abandoned wear house and brutally beat, killed, and mutilated the boy, then wrapped him in barbed wire and threw him in a river. When the body was discovered they found that his right eye was out of its socket and hanging down to his cheek and his left eye was missing. There was a gaping hole in the side of his head from a gunshot and they cut his tongue and genitals off. The mother had an open casket funeral open to the public to show the horrors of the south.