It was the shocking picture that ignited the Civil Rights Movement: 14-year old Emmett Till in his casket.
His mother Mamie wanted the nation to see the brutality of his killers.
“I wondered, why was it necessary to shoot him?’” she said years later.
Till was visiting family in Mississippi when a story started going around town that he had whistled at Carolyn Bryant, a 21-year old white cashier at a grocery store
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