The tragedy that launched the civil rights movement

When young Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi in 1955, pictures of his brutalised body played a pivotal role in sparking the emerging Civil Rights movement in the US. Now, over 60 years later, the US Justice Department is re-opening the case

Written By: 

James A Molinar

MONEY. RURAL Mississippi, 1955. A whistle. Then a murder.

This, however, was not a murder over money, but rather in Money, a tiny town whose primary inhabitants were sharecroppers, a throwback to antebellum times.

The main shop in town was owned by the Bryant family, including 21-year-old Carolyn, a former beauty queen whose good looks were well-known around those parts.

It was that fateful day, when a 14-year-old boy from Chicago named Emmett Till came down to spend a few weeks visiting with relatives.

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