Emmett
Louis
"Bobo"
Till
Born in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States of America
Ancestors 
Died
at age 14
in Money, Mississippi, United States of America
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Biography
Emmett Till is Notable.
Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African-American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store.
Emmett Louis Till was born July 25, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois. He was a son of Louis Till and Mamie Elizabeth Carthan.
In 1955 he was accused by Carolyn Bryant of making inappropriate advances against her at her store. Several nights after the supposed incident, Bryant's husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother J.W. Milam , armed themselves and abducted Emmett. On August 28, 1955, they beat and mutilated him before shooting him in the head and sinking his body in the Tallahatchie River.[1]
His mother insisted on an open casket funeral so all could see what had been done to him. He was buried in Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Cook county, Illinois.[2]
Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were acquitted of murder. However, June 2022, an arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant for kidnapping, dated August 29, 1955, was found. It is currently under debate whether that warrant can still be served.[3]
Sources
- ↑ Huie, William Bradford. Look magazine, January 24, 1956. Available at https://archive.is/Cole1
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 31 July 2020), memorial page for Emmett Louis Till (25 Jul 1941–28 Aug 1955), Find A Grave: Memorial #12300, citing Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Cook County, Illinois, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave.
- ↑ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/emmett-s-family-wants-woman-arrested-warrant-unearthed-67-years-later-rcna36017
- Wikipedia:Emmett_Till
- 1941 Emmet Louis Till birth. "Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1949", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6ZDR-Z93F : 3 April 2021), Mamie Carthan in entry for Emmet Louis Till, 1941.
- Emmett was born 25-Jul-1951 in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois. His parents were Louis Till and Mamie Carthan. Certificate 30322.
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