Emmett Louis Till was born in Chicago on July 25, 1941. Emmett was the only child of Louis and Mamie Till. He never knew his father, a soldier, who died during World War II. At the age of five ...

But the persistent Till won Mamie's heart, and they married on October 14, 1940. Both were 18 years old. Nine months later, their only child, Emmett Louis Till, nicknamed "Bobo," was born at Cook ...

Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old Chicago boy, whose body was found weighted down in the Tallahatchie River near the Delta community of Money, Miss., August 31, 1955. Local residents Roy Bryant, 24, ...