The cars came one by one, down a gravel road and through a cotton field, to the edge of the Tallahatchie River and the spot where, 64 years ago, historians believe Emmett Till’s lifeless body ...

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.

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 ...

Emmett Till's black, broken body was plucked from the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi days after his killing in Aug. 1955, a heavy cotton gin fan tied on his neck with barbed wire. It took 19 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Image Emmett Till, who was kidnapped ... gin fan to his neck with barbed wire and threw his body into the Tallahatchie River. Emmett’s body was eventually pulled from the river, though his ...

Graball Landing is where Emmett Till’s disfigured body is believed to have been found early in the morning of Aug. 31, 1955, by a Black teenager fishing. Located across from the confluence of the ...