Emmett Till, African-American kidnapping and lynching victim (born 1941)

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…