Emmett Louis Till was born on July 25, 1941 in Chicago, IL. The only child of Mamie and Louis TIll, he was brutally murdered on August 28, 1955.
He should be celebrating his birthday, but instead, he, like so many others, was lynched because of the color of his skin.
Emmett’s mother, like so many other mothers who had moved “up north,” sent her son “down south” to visit with relatives…