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	Emmett Louis Till (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Money, Mississippi, Emmett Till, 14, from Chicago, didn't know the unwritten laws of the Jim Crow South until two men dragged him from his bed, brutally beat him and shot him in the head.
		Till's death was a spark that helped to mobilize the civil rights movement.
		Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old Black teenager from Chicago, was visiting family in a small town in Mississippi during the summer of 1955.
	www.karisable.com /crhateemtill.htm (652 words)

	Essay: What does the murder of Emmet Till and the subsequent trial of his murderers tell us about American society in ...
		Emmet Till was born in Chicago on July 25th 1941; this means that he was 14 years old.
		Emmet Till was sent by his mother to visit relatives in Mississippi, in the south of America.
		As Emmet Till was brought up in the less racist north, he was not accustomed to the separation in the South.
	www.coursework.info /GCSE/History/Modern_World_History/USA_1919-1941/What_does_the_murder_of_Emmet_Till_and_the_subsequent_L18172.html (336 words)

	Remembering Mamie Till Mobley, Tireless Crusader for Civil Rights
		Mobley was the mother of Emmet Till, the young man whose death at the hands of southern racists in 1955 was one of the sparks for the early civil-rights movement.
		This was the effect that the Emmet Till murder had on an entire generation of African Americans and anti-racist whites.
		For the rest of her life, Emmet Till's mother was determined that her child's death would not be in vain, it would be used to serve a higher purpose.
	honors.umd.edu /HONR269J/archive/MamieTill2.html (743 words)

	Emmet Swimming - Biography - AOL Music
		Emmet Swimming formed in 1991 while students at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. Emmet Swimming is Todd Watts on vocals and guitar, Luke Michel on bass, Erik Wenberg on guitars and vocals, and drummer Derrick Decker, who replaced original drummer Tamer Eid.
		Emmet Swimming released their indie debut, Dark When the Snow Falls, in 1993, which was deemed Debut Album of the Year by the Washington Area Music Association.
		Emmet Swimming was popular, especially with college students, for their intense live shows and their seemingly contradictory mix of upbeat music and somber lyrics.
	music.aol.com /artist/emmet-swimming/169411/biography (417 words)

	US Justice Department opens investigation into the 1955 murder of Emmett Till (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Till’s body had a 100-pound cotton gin fan tied with barbed wire to the upper part of the torso.
		They claimed that Emmett Till was either in Chicago or California and that the NAACP and communists from the North were just using this to stir up trouble.
		Till felt it was crucial for the eyes of the world to see what had been done to her son by the racists and was determined that such a thing would not happen again.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/jun2004/till-j11.shtml (1787 words)

	(AP) In Miss., Push to Save Emmet Till Landmark \| WKRN.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Till was kidnapped from his uncle's home in the dead of night four days after the encounter at the store.
		Till's body was found several miles away, in a different county.
		Jordan was 19 when Till was slain, and he and some college friends attended the trial.
	www.wkrn.com /news/ap-in-miss-push-to-save-emmet-till-landmark (744 words)

	History Channel Classroom:
		When Emmett Till's mother showed the mutilated body of her murdered son to the world, the images of complacency were shattered.
		Till's murder, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the violence surrounding the integration of Central High School were captured by the media, especially the new medium of television.
		Emmett Till was born in Chicago and was unfamiliar with Southern society and mores.
	history.com /classroom/admin/study_guide/archives/thc_guide.0008.html (664 words)

	Emmet Till
		Emmett Till was a fl, 14 year old boy a from the working-class neighborhood of Chicago south side who inadvertently started the American civil rights movement.
		Authorities wanted to bury the body quickly, but Till's mother, 33 year old Mamie Bradley, requested to be sent back to Chicago where she could make sure it was really her son.
		Curtis Jones, Till's cousin, was forbidden by his mother to go to Chicago to testify, for fear he would be physically harmed.
	shs.westport.k12.ct.us /jwb/Collab/CivRtsWeb/Till.htm (742 words)

	"That's his hazel eye," Mrs. Till said. "Where is the other one?" \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Emmett Till's body was exhumed and identified in 1995 (the killers had claimed at the trial that the body wasn't his).
		Till's murder is regrettable, but this isolated incident is in no way indicative of the way white Southerners or white Americans in general treated fls.
		Till was an outsider who came to a peaceful town where the fls were perfectly happy, just to whistle at white women and cause trouble.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/50156 (1803 words)

	.: Albany Democrat-Herald :. Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Till, who was raised in Chicago, was abducted from his uncle's home in the tiny Mississippi Delta community of Money on Aug. 28, 1955, reportedly for whistling at a white woman.
		Till's mother insisted that her son's body be displayed in an open casket at his funeral, forcing the nation to see the brutality directed at fls in the South at the time.
		Two white men charged with Till's murder — store owner Roy Bryant and his half brother J.W. Milam — were acquitted by an all-white jury but later confessed to Look magazine.
	www.dhonline.com /articles/2005/06/01/news/nation/nat04.txt (437 words)

	Workers World Feb. 13, 2003: Reopen the case of Emmett Till
		Emmett Till was born and raised in Chicago to parents who had migrated North, as did millions of Black people, to escape the oppressive South.
		As Till was leaving the store, Bryant's wife alleged that the teenager, who suffered from a speech impediment, whistled at her.
		Moore has the authority to designate an "Emmett Till Day" to not only honor Till, his mother and all the civil-rights activist who gave their lives in the struggle for social justice--but to honor a struggle that is far from over.
	www.workers.org /ww/2003/bhm0213.php (1301 words)

	Pittsburgh Film Festival
		Three nights later, Emmett Till was abducted, beaten, and shot through the head.
		The murder of Emmett Till shook America, and opened a window on the deep social divisions of the 1950s.
		When tens of thousands of Americans rallied against injustice, the Till case proved to be the first spark for the American civil rights movement.
	www.amnestyusa.org /filmfest/pittsburgh/2003/march30.html (189 words)

	Mrs. Mamie Till: A Mother’s Courage; A Movement’s Spark
		The accusation levied against Till was a common device used by whites as an excuse to prey upon Blacks, particularly Black men.
		He disappeared, vanishing into the darkness of the Mississippi night, like so many before him who had “forgot their place.” Emmet Till was shot in the head, brutally beaten, disfigured and dumped in the Tallahatchie river.
		Mamie Till refused to allow her son’s death to be in vain.
	www.honors.umd.edu /HONR269J/archive/MamieTill1.html (575 words)

	Emmet Till (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When Till and Jones arrived on August 21, they stayed at the home of Emmett's great-uncle, Mose Wright, which was on the outskirts of Money, Mississippi.
		Instead, they alleged that the NAACP and Mamie Till had dug up a body and claimed that it was Emmet Till.
		The murder of Emmett Till was a shocking example to the world of the danger, inequality, and prejudice that fls faced.
	www.youngmessengerrzz.com /id87.html (1180 words)

	emmet swimming: band (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		emmet swimming is often called "one of the most successful touring bands to come out of the Mid-Atlantic".
		In the late 1950s in a small town in Mississippi, a young fl boy was shot and thrown into a nearby river for the crime of whistling at a white woman.
		The boy's name was Emmet Till and he would become only one name on a long list of martyrs of the civil rights movement.
	www.emmetswimming.com /bio.asp (200 words)

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	Emmett Till Murder Site Bluejeans' Place (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-5.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Emmett Till's mother, Mamie Till Mobley, originally from the Tallahatchie County area in Mississippi where Money is located in the Delta region, sent Emmett to spend the summer of 1955 with his great-uncle Mose Wright who was a cotton sharecropper.
		While Emmett may have been street-wise to the ways of Chicago, he was unfamiliar with the Jim Crow world of Southern white supremacy where African-American men were called "boy" to their face, African-American women were called by their first name regardless of age, and lynching was considered justice.
		Till insisted her son be waked in public with an open casket.
	www.bluejeansplace.com.cob-web.org:8888 /EmmettTillMurderSite.html (783 words)

	Editorial: Chance for justice / Setting the record straight on Emmet Till's murder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After 14-year-old Chicagoan Emmet Till was pulled from a bed in his uncle's Mississippi house in 1955 and murdered, his mother insisted on an open casket so the world could see what racism in America had done.
		What is known is that two men, now dead, who were tried and acquitted in Emmet Till's murder, later admitted it in a Look magazine interview.
		All they want is to set the official record straight, and to get official acknowledgement of the grievous wrong done Emmet Till, as well as greater awareness of the two men who admitted they were perpetrators.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04075/285863.stm (339 words)

	a burst of light... *: Mamie Till Mobley Passes
		Mamie Till Mobley, the mother of lynch-mob victim Emmett Till and a tiredless activist died on the 5th.
		Mamie Till gave her soon an open casket funeral for everyone to see what they did to her son,which should of made a impression in the minds of other killers "MUDDER IS WRONG." Mamie Till didn't lay down and except that they murdered her son she became a civil rights activist.
		I honestly think that Emmitt Till should've survived so that the people who did what they did to him would die a crucial death, and feel it from the beggining of their lives to their very last breath.
	www.ronntaylor.com /bulbs/000161.html (5252 words)

	10 O'Clock News \| [Mamie Till-Mobley]
		Marcus Jones reports that the brutal murder of Emmet Louis Till startled the nation in 1955; that Emmet Louis Till was from Chicago; that Emmet Louis Till was visiting relatives in Mississippi in 1955.
		Jones reports that Emmet Louis Till said "Bye, baby" to a white woman when exiting a grocery store; that Emmet Louis Till's body was found in the Tallahatchie River a few days later.
		Till talks about her quest for justice in 1955.
	main.wgbh.org /ton/programs/5846_02.html (530 words)

	Chicago Defender / Local
		A majority of Emmett Till's family members said Thursday that they object to plans by the Justice Department to exhume his body in order to find clues to solve his brutal murder 50 years ago.
		It was revealed Tuesday that the Justice Department and the FBI were planning to re-open the case, beginning with an exhumation of Till's body.
		Jones said the initiative is planning several activities and events for the weekend of Till's death, such as a parade in Englewood on the weekend of Aug. 27.
	www.chicagodefender.com /page/local.cfm?ArticleID=696 (958 words)

	Bob Dylan Who's Who (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Just to be historically accurate, and to satisfy the teacher in me, Emmett Till was a 14 year old African-American from Chicago who visited his grandfather, Mose Wright, in Money, Mississippi for the summer.
		The next night her husband, Roy Bryant, and some other men, went to Mose Wrights house and dragged Emmett Till out, and he was found dead and mutilated three days later.
		Of historical importance is that JET Magazine ran a picture of his mutilated body laying in the open casket, a wish from his mother who wanted the world to se "what they did to my son." That was an exposure that few Americans had seen before, the brutality of whites against fls.
	www.expectingrain.com /dok/who/t/tillemmett.html (474 words)

	Interview with Keith Beauchamp about his film "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till.", 1/05
		In1955, Mamie Till Bradley put her only son on a train bound from Chicago to Mississippi so he could visit relatives.
		Bradley to shield the world from the grotesque waxen features that dripped from her son's bones, to allow no sunlight to pass through the hole in his skull, or reveal the eyeball that lolled upon his cheek.
		A lot is linked to the Emmett Till case; it's going to help with reparations, it's going to help with affirmative action, it's going to help with other civil rights cases that need to be reopened.
	www.newenglandfilm.com /news/archives/05january/beauchamp.htm (1818 words)

	Early Civil Rights Struggles: The Murder of Emmett Till
		Intelligent and bold, with a slight mischievous streak, Emmett Till had experienced segregation in his hometown of Chicago, but he was unaccustomed to the severe segregation he encountered in Mississippi.
		Whites in Mississippi resented the Northern criticism of the "barbarity of segregation" and the NAACP's labeling of the murder as a lynching.
		The impact of the Emmett Till case on fl America was even greater than that of the Brown decision.
	www.watson.org /~lisa/blackhistory/early-civilrights/emmett.html (838 words)

	Amazon.com: Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas: Video: Dave Goelz,Richard Hunt,Jerry Nelson,Frank Oz,Eren Ozker,Marilyn ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Emmet Otter and his jug band are trying out in the local talent show, but they face fierce competition from a gang of toughs, the Riverbottom Gang and their rock band.
		Jerry Nelson as Emmet Otter, Weasel, Marilyn Sokol as Ma Otter, Dave Goelz as Wendel, Pop-eyed Catfish, Richard Hunt as Charlie, Lizard, Eren Ozker as Gretchen Fox, Marilyn Sokol as Ma Otter, Dave Goelz as Wendel, Pop-eyed Catfish, Richard Hunt as Charlie, Lizard, Eren Ozker as Gretchen Fox, Jim Henson as Kermit the Frog/Harrison Fox/Harvey/Snake...
		In 1977, HBO first aired Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas and also ran it in 1978 and 1979 which is the version that's been available on VHS for years and was just released on DVD.
	www.amazon.com /Emmet-Otters-Jug-Band-Christmas/dp/076781598X (1992 words)

	UWM News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The film chronicles the story of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy who, in August 1955, whistled at a white woman in a grocery store in Money, Miss.
		Till, a teen from Chicago, didn't understand that he had broken the unwritten laws of the Jim Crow South until three days later, when two white men dragged him from his bed in the dead of night, beat him brutally and then shot him in the head.
		Although his killers were arrested and charged with murder, they were both acquitted quickly by an all-white, all-male jury.
	www.uwm.edu /News/PR/03.03/april03_cmp.html (267 words)

	The Untold Story of Emmet Louis Till (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Helen Mirren stars as Elizabeth II in The Queen, a fictionalized behind-the-scenes look at the royal family's reaction to the death of Princess Di.
		Beauchamp reconstructs the actual crime with disturbing immediacy, and his treatment of how Till's death galvanized a country makes this short film a good way to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a crime that still has the power to outrage.
		The film is only 70 minutes long, but it is nearly impossible to sit through, not only because of the lingering image at its center of Emmett Till's battered body but because of the visceral sense of outrage it can't help but provoke in you.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/1150162-the_untold_story_of_emmet_louis_till (997 words)

	International Socialist Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On August 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmet Till—a teenager from Chicago visiting relatives in the town of Sumner, Missisippi—was taken by two white men from his great aunt’s house, beaten, mutilated and shot to death.
		A moving response to Emmet Till’s murder was published in 1955 in the socialist publication The American Socialist.
		And Emmet Louis Till also, in his final hour, knew more about our Southland and the desperate forces at work in it than any college of sociologists.
	www.isreview.org /issues/11/socialist_case.shtml (595 words)

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