 Emmett Till, a 14-year old African American from Chicago, visited his relatives in Money, Mississippi, for the summer.He allegedly had an interaction with a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in a small grocery store that violated the norms of Mississippi culture, and Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam brutally murdered young Emmett Till.They beat and mutilated him before shooting him in the head and sinking his body in the Tallahatchie River.