On this day August 28, 1955 Emmett Till was murdered

[spike jones]

[link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till|

Though exactly what happened next is uncertain, Carolyn later claimed that the teen grabbed her, made lewd advances, and whistled at her as he left.When Bryant's husband, Roy returned to town a few days later he rushed over to Till's family house with his half-brother J.W. Milam and forced Till into their car. After beating him, they drove him down to the Tallahatchie River where they made him carry a 75-pound cotton gin fan to the bank and then ordered him to take off his clothes.
The two men beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head, and then threw his body, tied to the cotton gin fan with barbed wire, into the river where his body was discovered three days later. They were acquitted of murder by a local, all-white jury but confessed to murdering Till a year later to a journalist at Look magazine.

[rsdsharp]

1. My understanding, and it may be wrong, is that she was offended

because he handed her money, inadvertently touching her hand in the process. African Americans were expected to place the money on the counter when dealing with a white cashier. She escalated her claims, and her husband and his brother took it from there.

[electric_blue68]

2. I know the story :( but I didn't know the date.

[kimbutgar]

3. My uncle went to junior high school with Emmett Till in Chicage

He said Emmett was an outspoken confident kid when he went to school with him. And after he saw the pictures of him in his coffin it upset him greatly as a young kid.