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THE DEATH OF EMMETT TILL BY: TY’DASHIA LAWRENCE
AND CHRISTIAN RICHARDSON
Information from http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-emmett-till
WHAT HAPPENED
Emmett Till was an African American boy. He was only 14 years old when he was brutally murdered.
ABOUT EMMETT TILL
Emmett Till He was 14 years old He was from ChicagoHe was visiting family in Mississippi.Emmett Till grew up in a working class neighborhood of the south side of Chicago.
WHAT HAPPENED
Emmett Till was an African American boy. He was only 14 years old when he was brutally murdered.
WHAT HAPPENED
Four days before the incident Emmett Till was flirting with a white woman. The white lady’s husband and brother were the assailants.
WHAT HAPPENED
When the white lady’s husband and brother found out They then found Emmett. They made Emmett carry a 75-pound cotton-gin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchie river.
WHAT HAPPENED
They found the young boy Emmett Till in the Tallahatchie River.A lady said she could see right through the bullet hole in Emmett’s head.
WERE THE BLACKS UNDER ATTACK?
The blacks thought that they were under attack. Descriptions were made as dark and scary.
WERE THE BLACKS UNDER ATTACK?
The blacks thought that the Emmett Till was a sign of them being next. This was one of the causes of the civil war.
FUN FACT: CIVIL WAR
The civil war was started because of the
segregation and this murder of Emmett till.