 Emmett Louis Till ( July 25 , 1941 – August 28 , 1955 ) was an African @-@ American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman . Till was from Chicago , Illinois , and visiting relatives in Money , a small town in the Mississippi Delta region . He spoke to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant in the Bryant family's grocery store, and after allegedly touching her, he was abducted from his great-uncle's house by two white men, J. geprüft .
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