Till posthumously became an icon of the civil rights movement. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States. Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National MonumentĮmmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was a 14-year-old African American boy who was abducted, tortured and lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store.

Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.