Till, Emmett, 1941-1955

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Emmett Till was born in Chicago, Illinois to Louis Till (February 7, 1922-July 2, 1945) and Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley (born Mamie Elizabeth Carthan, November 23, 1921-January 6, 2003). In the summer of 1955 Emmett took a vacation to visit relatives near Money in the Mississippi Delta region, and help them with the cotton harvest. While there, he was accused of harassing a local white woman. A few days later, August 28, 1955, Emmett was abducted at gunpoint, brutally beaten, mutilated, and eventually shot. His body was found in the river on August 31, 1955.

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referencedIn	44-9540, Section 1 Serials 1-11, Mississippi (1955) Emmett Till	National Archives at College Park
referencedIn	Awakenings	National Archives at College Park
referencedIn	Cedric Belfrage Papers, Bulk, 1945-1985, 1922-1990, (Bulk 1945-1985)	Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn	Civil Rights History Project collection	Archive of Folk Culture (U.S.)
referencedIn	Dylan, Bob, 1941-. The death of Emmett Till / by Bob Dylan.	Library of Congress
referencedIn	Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law Proposed by the Plaintiffs	National Archives at Fort Worth
referencedIn	Huie, William Bradford, 1910-1986. Papers, [ca. 1920]-1989.	Ohio State University Libraries
referencedIn	Letter, J. Edgar Hoover to Dillon Anderson	Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
referencedIn	Memorandum for the Record, E. Frederic Morrow Regarding Emmett Till	Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
referencedIn	Memorandum from National Administrative Committee of the American Communist Party Regarding the Emmett Till Lynching	Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

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associatedWith	American Folklife Center
associatedWith	Belfrage, Cedric, 1904-1990
associatedWith	Dylan, Bob, 1941-
associatedWith	Huie, William Bradford, 1910-1986.
associatedWith	National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)
descendantOf	Till-Mobley, Mamie, -2003
associatedWith	Vincent, Charles, 1945-
associatedWith	Wallace, Tom, 1874-1961.