Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till (July 25, 1941 - August 28, 1955) was an African-American teenager from Chicago, Illinois who died in what has been characterized as a "brutal murder" in a region of Mississippi known as the Mississippi Delta in the small town of Money in Leflore County. His murder was one of the key events that energized the nascent American Civil Rights Movement. The main suspects were acquitted but later admitted to committing the crime. Wikipedia
Emmet Louis Till - Overviews the story of this 14-year-old boy's murder, his killers' acquittal, their sale of their confession to a magazine, and Mrs. Till's work to see that her son had not died in vain. dmoz.org/Society/Ethnicity/African/African-American/Histo...
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Emmett Till. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
She was thinking of another boy who was in the news recently, a teenager from Chicago , with the unlikely name of Emmett "Bobo" Till. www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/emmett_till/
In 1955, Jet magazine published photographs of the mutilated body of 14-year-old Chicago resident Emmett Till, who was brutally murdered in Mississippi. Many civil rights activists say seeing those pictures both haunted and inspired them. NPR's Noah Adams www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1969702
Intelligent and bold, with a slight mischievous streak, Emmett Till had experienced segregation in his hometown of Chicago, but he was unaccustomed to the severe segregation he encountered in Mississippi. www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/early-civilrights/emmet...
The lynching narrative that most readily comes to mind is the case of Emmett Till, a fifteen-year-old boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955. emmett-till.com
