The Cause Of Emmett Till's Murder

Emmett Till was an African American boy, from Chicago, Illinois, who was murder in 1955 in Money, Mississippi by two southern white men over the issue that Emmett had whistled at one of the men’s wives at a grocery store. Emmett was kidnapped at gun point from his great uncles home in the middle of the night, brutally beaten by the two southern white men, shot in the head with a revolver, a cotton gin was then tied to his neck with barbed wire, and then the body of Emmett Till was thrown into the Tallahatchie River by the two southern white men. The spark caused from the pistol’s hammer striking the ignition cap of the bullet, causing the gunpowder in the bullet casing to ignite, firing the bullet down the barrel resulting in not only the end