Emmett Till was accused of whistling at Carolyn Bryant, a white woman, in her family’s grocery store in Mississippi in 1955.
The husband of Carolyn Bryant and his relative brutally beat him, took Emmett to the edge of the Tallahatchie River, shot him in the head, fastened a large metal fan used for ginning cotton to his neck with barbed wire, and pushed the body into the river.
The brutality of Emmett Till’s murder and the sad reality that his killers were not convicted drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States.
Emmett Still injuries autopsy
The autopsy report found that Emmett Till died of a gunshot wound to the head and that he had broken wrist bones and skull and leg fractures.
When Emmett’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River in the summer of 1955, the report said, “the crown of his head was just crushed out and a piece of his skull just fell out.”
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