Today, Emmett Till is a civil rights icon ... The gin fan used to sink Till’s body in the Tallahatchie River was kept by a lawyer in Sumner “as a trophy” but he eventually threw it into ...

Emmett Till would have turned 82 today ... had a cotton gin tied around his body and was thrown in the Tallahatchie River, Till and his mother are being memorialized in the form of three monuments ...

Graball Landing on the Tallahatchie River, near where 14-year-old Emmett Till’s body was found, on Wednesday, July 19, 2023, in Mississippi. Till was a Black teen kidnapped, tortured and killed ...

But Emmett Till wasn't from the South ... Emmett's mangled body was found by a boy fishing in the waters of the Tallahatchie River, not far from Money. His body had been weighted down by a ...

Part of the reason for the project was constant vandalism of memorials for Till. A sign that was on display at the Tallahatchie River, where Emmett Till's body was found, is at the traveling ...

A memorial sign at Graball Landing, the spot where Emmett Till's body was pulled from the ... More Tallahatchie River just outside of Glendora, Miss., is photographed Monday, July 24, 2023.

Three days later, Emmett’s body was found in the Tallahatchie River. It was beaten beyond recognition. His teeth were missing. An ear was severed. An eye was hanging out of its socket.

The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument ... Another is Graball Landing along the Tallahatchie River, where Till’s body was discovered. A final site includes the county courthouse ...

On Wednesday, August 31, 1955, Emmett Till’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River near Graball Landing in Tallahatchie County. Moses Wright confirmed that the badly beaten body was that ...