The Murder of Emmett Till

On August 28, 1955, two men abducted fourteen-year-old Emmett Till from his great-uncle's home in the Mississippi Delta, days after an encounter at a local grocery store. Till, visiting from Chicago for the summer, was beaten and killed, his body pulled from the Tallahatchie River three days later. His mother, Mamie, insisted on an open casket so the world could see what had been done to her son. This episode follows the kidnapping, the trial that acquitted his killers in under an hour, and the ripple effects that helped ignite the civil rights movement.Send me a text!Support the show