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Emmett Till鈥檚 brutal murder in 1955 sparked a revolution in America. The 14-year-old was lynched for whistling at a white woman at a grocery store in the south. His mother Mamie Till-Mobley decided to have an open casket at his funeral to show the world how viciously two white men had mutilated her son, before they shot him and threw his body in the Tallahatchie River. Rosa Parks said she had Emmett Till鈥檚 name in her head when she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus a few months later.

Emmett's cousin, Wheeler Parker, was with him that fateful day at the store and was in the same house when the men came with a flashlight and pistol to take him away. Emmett and Wheeler had both travelled from Chicago to stay with relatives in Mississippi. Strict segregation laws were still in force in the south and black people had to behave a certain way in front of white people. Being from the north Emmett wasn't used to these racist rules.