Remembering Black History -- The Lost Story of Emmett Till: Then & Now

On August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, was brutally murdered after allegedly flirting with a white woman in Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market in the small town’s store.

His attackers—the white woman’s husband and his brother—abducted Emmett from his uncle’s home, severely beat him, gouged out one of his eyes, shot him in the head, tied his body to a large fan with barbed wire, and threw his body into the Tallahatchie River.

His mother, upon seeing his mutilated body after its return to his home in Chicago, decided to have an open-casket funeral so that the world could see what the Mississippi murderers had done to her son.

The murder trial, which exonerated the white perpetrators, brought to light the brutality of Jim Crow segregation in the South and was an early impetus of the civil rights movement.

In “The Lost Story of Emmett Till: Then & Now,” investigative journalist Marion Brooks travels to Mississippi and uncovers startling, previously unknown facts that provide the biggest updates to Emmett’s story in recent memory.