According to his murderers, near Boyle, Mississippi.
The trail for Emmett Till's murder took place in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were tried and acquitted by an all-white jury in September 1955.
Emmett Till was killed in Money, Mississippi
Emmett Till's murder case received widespread media coverage and ignited the Civil Rights Movement.
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, 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.
The Murder of Emmett Till - TV Documentary - was created in 2003.
The trail for Emmett Till's murder took place in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were tried and acquitted by an all-white jury in September 1955.
1955
The Emmett Till murder trial brought to light the brutality of Jim Crow segregation in the South
His murder sparked the upsurge of activism
Two months
Emmett Till was killed in Money, Mississippi
Emmett Till's murder case received widespread media coverage and ignited the Civil Rights Movement.
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.
Emmett Till went to visit his grandpa in Mississippi,(which is the place he died in) but he originally lived in Chicago.
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