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          5. Emmett Till

          African American lynching victim (1941–1955)

          "Death of Emmett Till" redirects here. For the song by Bob Dylan, see The Death of Emmett Till.

          Emmett Till

          Till in a photograph taken by his mother on Christmas Day, 1954

          Born

          Emmett Louis Till


          (1941-07-25)July 25, 1941

          Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

          DiedAugust 28, 1955(1955-08-28) (aged 14)

          Drew, Mississippi, U.S.[1]

          Cause of deathLynching (bullet wound and mutilation)
          Resting placeBurr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois
          EducationJames McCosh Elementary School
          Parents
          AwardsCongressional Gold Medal (posthumous, 2022)

          Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was a 14-year-old African American youth who 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 killers drew attention to the long history of viol