Document Type
Newsletter
Publication Year
1956
Excerpt
Fourteen-year-old Emmett Louis Till, whose father was in the United States armed forces in World War II, had been sent by his mother from Chicago to Sumner, Mississippi, to spend a vacation with her uncle, Mose Wright. At 2 a.m. August 28, 1955, two men came to the home of Mr. Wright and at pistol point demanded that the boy go with them. Three days later a corpse was found in the nearby Tallahatchie River. It was identified as the body of Emmett Till. The victim had been beaten, shot, tied to a weight, and dropped into the river.
Recommended Citation
Lutheran Human Relations Association of America, "The Vanguard (Vol. 3, No. 1), Jan 1956" (1956). The Vanguard. 11.
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