September 2, 2015
Aricka Gordon-Taylor, a cousin of Till, and co-founder of the Mamie Till Mobley Memorial Foundation, speaks in front of Emmitt Till's grave.
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Social Media Remembers Emmitt Till on 60th Anniversary
Last week, users of the social media website Twitter, commemorated the 60th anniversary of the murder of 14 year-old Emmitt Till. Till’s gruesome death is widely known as the incident that sparked the Civil Rights Movement. Till was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he alledgedly whistled at a white woman who worked at a nearby store. The men who were related to the woman, later kidnapped Till. Those men brutally beat him, shot him and threw his body into a nearby river. The men who killed Till were acquitted of all wrongdoing.