Murder of Emmett Till

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civil rights era event documentary film hate crime historical event lynching person racially motivated crime

The Murder of Emmett Till was the 1955 lynching of a Black teenager in Mississippi that became a catalyst for the modern American civil rights movement.

Aliases (8)

Emmett Till ×8
The Murder of Emmett Till (2003 documentary film) ×3
Carolyn Bryant ×1
Emmett Louis Till ×1
Emmett Till funeral casket ×1
J. W. Milam ×1
Mamie Till-Mobley ×1
Roy Bryant ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	civil rights era event → documentary film → hate crime → historical event → lynching → person → person → person → person → person → racially motivated crime →
allegedWhiteWoman	Carolyn Bryant →
bodyDisposedIn	Tallahatchie River →
causeOfDeath	lynching →
commemoratedBy	Emmett Till Interpretive Center → historical markers in Mississippi →
country	United States of America →
date	1955-08-28 →
dateOfBirth	1941-07-25 →
director	Stanley Nelson Jr. →
era	Jim Crow era →
ethnicity	African American →
fullName	Emmett Louis Till →
hasVictim	Emmett Till →
impact	catalyst for the modern American civil rights movement →
influenced	Montgomery bus boycott → Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee activism →
juryComposition	all-white male jury →
legalOutcome	acquittal of defendants by all-white jury →
location	Money, Mississippi, United States →
mediaCoverage	extensive national coverage in the United States →
methodOfKilling	beating → shooting →
mother	Mamie Till-Mobley →
motherDecision	Mamie Till-Mobley insisted on open-casket funeral →
perpetrator	J. W. Milam → Roy Bryant →
photographicEvidence	open-casket funeral photographs →
placeOfBirth	Chicago, Illinois, United States →
recognizedAs	major turning point in U.S. civil rights history →
subjectOf	The Murder of Emmett Till (2003 documentary film) → federal investigations into civil rights era crimes →
symbolOf	brutality of Jim Crow segregation → racial injustice in the United States →
tookPlaceIn	Leflore County, Mississippi, United States → Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States →
trialLocation	Sumner, Mississippi, United States →
triggeringAllegation	whistling at a white woman →
victimAge	14 →
year	1955 →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Emmett Till ("Emmett Louis Till") →	fullName
National Museum of African American History and Culture ("Emmett Till funeral casket") →	hasNotableObject
Murder of Emmett Till ("Emmett Till") →	hasVictim
Blues for Mister Charlie ("Emmett Till") →	inspiredBy
American South (mid-20th century civil rights era) →	siteOfEvent
Murder of Emmett Till ("The Murder of Emmett Till (2003 documentary film)") →	subjectOf