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African-American teenager Emmett Till was lynched near Money, Mississippi, for allegedly flirting with a white woman, energizing the nascent American civil rights movement.
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Emmett Till
American lynching victim (1941–1955)
Emmett Louis Till was an African American youth, who was 14 years old when he was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Lynching in the United States
Extrajudicial killings in the U.S. by mobs or vigilante groups
Lynching was the occurrence of extrajudicial killings which began in the United States' pre–Civil War South in the 1830s, slowed during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and continued until 1981. Although the victims of lynchings were members of various…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Money, Mississippi
Unincorporated community in Mississippi, United States
Money is an unincorporated community near Greenwood in Leflore County, Mississippi, United States, in the Mississippi Delta. It has fewer than 100 residents, down from 400 in the early 1950s when a cotton mill operated there. Money is located on a railroad line along the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Civil rights movement
1954–1968 U.S. social movement
The civil rights movement was a social movement in the United States from 1954 to 1968 which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country, which most commonly affected African Americans. The movement had origins in the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)