Emmett Till, over the years, has become synonymous with the racial horrors of the old South.
Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was beaten, murdered, and killed the same year Joyce Chiles was born in Mississippi.
The murder of Emmett Till showed America what segregation looks like: the mangled body of a brutally beaten 14-year old boy.
In the summer of 1955, Emmett Till was visiting Mississippi from Chicago.
On this date in 1955, a black teenager from Chicago, Emmett Till, was forcibly taken by two white men from his uncle's house in Money, Miss.
They would all have remembered the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott that same year, and the showdown in Little Rock in 1957.
You know, obviously, you look at the historic case of Emmett Till, who was a 14-year-old teenager in Mississippi who was murdered in 1955 for allegedly flirting with a white woman.
Among the artifacts to be exhibited are a segregated rail car, slave clothing and the casket of Emmett Till, whose brutal 1955 murder in Mississippi was a spark in the early civil rights movement.
When that image of Emmett Till was shown to the world, it stirred up such a burning desire for justice inside African-Americans that it was a part of the foundation of the civil rights movement.
But what is most needed -- more than just keeping the focus on Trayvon -- is for his death to spark an uprising of awareness and consciousness, maybe similar to what Emmett Till's death did in 1955.
And the brutalized body of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy killed in 1955 for allegedly flirting with a white woman, was shown at the insistence of his mother at his funeral, galvanizing the civil rights movement, Shapiro said.
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