Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till "Have you ever sent a loved son on
vacation and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly
battered and water-logged that someone needs to tell you this
sickening sight is your son -- lynched?" About this page This
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Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till (July 25, 1941 %u2013 August 28, 1955)
was an African-American teenager from Chicago, Illinois who died
in what has been characterized as a "brutal murder" in a region
of Mississippi known as the Mississippi Delta in the small town
of Money in Leflore County. His murder was one of the key events
that energized the nascent American Civil Rights Movement. The
main suspects were acquitted but later admitted to committing
the crime. Till's mother had an open casket funeral to let
everyone see how her son had been brutally killed. He had been
shot and beaten; he was then thrown into the Tallahatchie River
with a 75-pound cotton gin fan tied to his neck with barbed wire
as a weight. Hi