USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A Chicago native, Till was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, when he was accused of harassing a local white woman. Several days later, relatives of the woman abducted Till, brutally beating and killing him before disposing of his body in a nearby river.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the summer of 1955, 14-year-old African-American Emmett Till had gone on vacation from Chicago to visit family in Money, Mississippi. He was shopping at a store owned by Roy and Carolyn Bryant-and someone said he possibly whistled at Mrs. Bryant, a white woman.

Detailed explanation-3: -In August 1955, Till-Mobley put her only son on a train to visit relatives for a summer vacation in Mississippi, where he would stay with his great-uncle, Moses Wright. Till-Mobley, who had been born and raised in rural Mississippi, warned her son that Mississippi was ripe with racism.

Detailed explanation-4: -While visiting his relatives in Mississippi, Till went to the Bryant store with his cousins, and may have whistled at Carolyn Bryant. Her husband, Roy Bryant, and brother-in-law, J.W. Milam, kidnapped and brutally murdered Till, dumping his body in the Tallahatchie River.

Detailed explanation-5: -Till arrived in Money, Mississippi, on August 21, 1955. He stayed with his great-uncle, Moses Wright, who was a sharecropper, and he spent his days helping with the cotton harvest.