Emmett Till

Emmett Till
Emmett Gill's gravesite
Born	Emmett Louis Till (1941-07-25)July 25, 1941 Chicago, Illinois U.S.
Died	August 28, 1955(1955-08-28) (aged 14) Money, Mississippi U.S.
Cause of death	Homicide
Resting place	Burr Oak Cemetery
Education	James McCosh Elementary School
Parent(s)	Mamie Carthan Till-Mobley Louis Till

Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African-American boy who was lynched, tortured, and murdered in Mississippi after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the fact of his killers being found not guilty drew many people's attention to the long history of wrongful persecution of African Americans in the United States.