Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago who was brutally murdered in Mississippi in August 1955 after being accused of whistling at a white woman, Carolyn Bryant. While visiting relatives 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 body shocked the nation and galvanized the Civil Rights Movement. Although the 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 racial injustice in America.