BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ZContent.net//Zap Calendar 1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:14 year old Emett Till murdered\, sparking Civil Rights Movement UID:2008-10-15-01-15-37-63-@americanhistorycalendar.com SEQUENCE:0 STATUS:CONFIRMED TRANSP:OPAQUE RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYMONTH=8;BYMONTHDAY=28 DTSTART;TZID=UTC;VALUE=DATE:20250828 DTEND;TZID=UTC;VALUE=DATE:20250829 DTSTAMP:20260315T205110 CATEGORIES:Civil Rights Events LOCATION:Money\, Mississippi GEO:33.651111;-90.209167 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n\n\n

Emmett Till was a 14-yea r-old African American boy from Chicago who was brutally murdered in Missi ssippi in August 1955 after being accused of whistling at a white woman, C arolyn Bryant. While visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, Till was ab ducted by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, who tortured and killed him before du mping his body in the Tallahatchie River. His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, i nsisted on an open-casket funeral to show the world the horror of his deat h. Photos of Till's mutilated body shocked the nation and galvanized the C ivil Rights Movement. Although the killers were acquitted by an all-white jury, they later admitted to the crime in a magazine interview. The case r emains a powerful symbol of racial injustice in America.

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DESCRIPTION:Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago who was brutally murdered in Mississippi in August 1955 after being accus ed of whistling at a white woman\, Carolyn Bryant. While visiting relative s in Money\, Mississippi\, Till was abducted by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam\ , who tortured and killed him before dumping his body in the Tallahatchie River. His mother\, Mamie Till-Mobley\, insisted on an open-casket funeral to show the world the horror of his death. Photos of Till's mutilated bod y shocked the nation and galvanized the Civil Rights Movement. Although th e killers were acquitted by an all-white jury\, they later admitted to the crime in a magazine interview. The case remains a powerful symbol of raci al injustice in America.\n\n URL:https://americanhistorycalendar.com/component/zcalendar/2,6621-14-year- old-emett-till-murdered-sparking-civil-rights-movement?Itemid= END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR