Emmett Till didn't do anything in the Civil War. He wasn't even alive when the Civil War occurred.
Emmett Till was from Chicago.
Emmett Till is 5' 6".
Emmett Till's middle name was Louis.
Emmett Till's unfortunate and untimely murder put into affect the events that would lead to the Mississippi bus boycott. The Mississippi bus boycott was the official start of the civil rights movement.
No, Emmett Till's mother, Mamie Till, is not still alive. She died on January 6, 2003.
Emmett Till was killed in Money, Mississippi
Emmett Till's murder case received widespread media coverage and ignited the Civil Rights Movement.
The elementary school he attended was renamed "Emmett Louis Till Math & Science Academy" in 2005The "Emmett Till Memorial Highway"The Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act was signed into law in 2008
There is no evidence or historical record to suggest that Emmett Till was gay. Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy who was brutally murdered in 1955 in Mississippi, sparking national outrage and becoming a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement.
His murder & trial were the start of the Civil Rights Movement
Till's murder focused national attention on civil rights abuses in the South and mobilized the Civil Rights Movement..
The Emmett Till murder trial brought to light the brutality of Jim Crow segregation in the South
Emmett Till was from Chicago.
The start of the Civil Rights Movement
Emmett Till was from Chicago.
No, Lucas Till and Emmett Till are not related.
Mamie Till has: Played Herself - Mother of Emmett Till (segment "The Murder of Emmett Till") in "60 Minutes" in 1968. Played Herself - Mother of Emmett Till in "The Murder and the Movement" in 1985. Played Mamie Till (Herself) in "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 1986. Played Herself - Mother of Emmett Till in "Eyes on the Prize" in 1987. Played herself in "The American Experience" in 1988. Played Herself - Mother of Emmett Till in "Civil Rights Martyrs: Free at Last" in 2000. Played herself in "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till" in 2005. Played Mamie Till (Herself) in "Faces in the Water: The Martyrs of Civil Rights Memorial" in 2005. Played Mamie Till in "Soundtrack for a Revolution" in 2009.