The brutal murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy, in 1955 was a significant event in the civil rights movement.
Emmett Till was murdered on August 28, 1955, in Money, Mississippi, at the age of 14, after being accused of harassing Carolyn Bryant, a white woman.
His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, known as Mamie Till, made the decision to have an open-casket funeral for her son so the world could see what had been done to him.
