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The boys who killed Emmett Till were aged 24 (Roy Bryant) and 36 (J.W. Milam) at the time of the murder in 1955.
Emmett Till was 14 years old at the time of his death.
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.
Emmett Till was killed in Money, Mississippi
Emmett Till's murder case received widespread media coverage and ignited the Civil Rights Movement.
The Murder of Emmett Till - TV Documentary - was created in 2003.
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.
1955
Emmett Till was 14 years old at the time of his death.
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, 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.
Emmett Till was killed in Money, Mississippi
Emmett Till's murder case received widespread media coverage and ignited the Civil Rights Movement.
According to his murderers, near Boyle, Mississippi.