Home Of Emmett Till Earns Landmark Designation In Chicago

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Undated portrait of Emmett Till. The 14-year-old boy was brutally murdered while visiting relatives in Mississippi in 1955. The Chicago City Council designated his former childhood home a city landmark Thursday.





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Till’s mother lived in a three-bedroom apartment on the second story of the building until 1962. She worked to combat racism in the years following the death of her only son, a city council news release said. The two men responsible, Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam, were accused but quickly acquitted by an all-male, all-white jury shortly after Till’s body was found, the FBI said. Bryant and Milam later confessed in an article published in Look magazine.

One hundred days after Till’s murder, Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala.