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On August 28th of 1955, after allegedly whistling at a 21-year old white woman in a local store, Emmitt Till, 14, was roused from sleep at his grandfather’s home. The pair was...accompanied by a quisling black man who was
charged with pointing Till out. Bryant and Milam then drove Till to an undisclosed location where they whipped him, gouged out one of his eyes and shot him in the head. They then tied a cotton gin fan around Till’s lifeless corpse and dumped him into the Tallahatchie River.
Emmitt Till’s mother demanded an open casket so everyone can see what they did to her boy, a catalyst for the ensuing civil rights movement in many subsequent actions. #BlackLivesMattter
