Emmett+Till+Murder



Emmett Till who was born on july 25,1941 and died august 28,1955 he had been beaten got shot in the head and was thrown into the Tallahatchie river with a 70-pound cotton gill fan tied around his neck with barbed wire.His body was in the river for 3 days before it was discovered by two fisherman.  Emmet till was murdered at the age of 14 in the state of Mississippi, all because he whistle at a white woman. The white lady told her husband and decided to punish Emmet Till. The white ladies husband and his friend located Emmet and demanded him to put on his clothes abducted, beat him to death until they had enough, then shot him in the head, and was thrown in the Mississippi river with a cotton gill fan tied around his neck. Unfortunately both white males was declared innocent. Emmett Till's mother decided to have an open casket funeral for the whole world could what the 2 white folks did and how the jurists let them free even though they knew that they were guilty. The case was reopen on the year 2004. Emmit Till's casket was donated to the Smithsonian museum. Till this day Emmet Till's murdered is still an unfinished case, no one was put to trial because of this treachery, even after 5 decades.



 This inspired a civil rights movement to even those who were non-african American.