The Murder of Emmett Till - TV Documentary - was created in 2003.
1955
The Emmett Till murder trial brought to light the brutality of Jim Crow segregation in the South
Two months
His murder sparked the upsurge of activism
Emmett Till was killed in Money, Mississippi, in 1955 at the age of 14. His murder was a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement in the United States.
Emmett Till's murder case received widespread media coverage and ignited the Civil Rights Movement.
Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi in August 1955.
Emmett Till was 14 when he died from murder on the 28th August 1955.
The boys who killed Emmett Till were aged 24 (Roy Bryant) and 36 (J.W. Milam) at the time of the murder in 1955.
The cast of The Murder and the Movement - 1985 includes: Simeon Booker as himself Myrlie Evers as herself Medgar Evers as himself Martin Luther King as himself Wheeler Parker as Himself - Cousin of Emmett Till Mamie Till as Herself - Mother of Emmett Till Mose Wright as himself Simeon Wright as Himself - Cousin of Emmett Till
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy, was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955 by two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam. They were acquitted of the crime by an all-white jury, but later confessed to the murder in a magazine interview.
His murder & trial started the Civil Rights Movement