Emmett Till
Emmett Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, died in 2003 at age 81, still holding out hope for a rehearing of the case. Her book, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America, was published by Random House that year… When the grand jury considered the case in 2006, Carolyn Bryant was the one surviving party of interest. In 2017, author Timothy Tyson (in his book The Blood of Emmett Till), revealed that Carolyn Bryant had confessed that she lied when she said Emmett Till had made advances toward her, saying “That part’s not true”… Though the two incidents were not directly connected, Rosa Parks‘s refusal to move from her seat in a Montgomery, Alabama bus happened on December 1, 1955, four months after Till’s death.
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Fine starting point with many details, from the PBS show American Experience
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Text, video and some good links from NPR
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2017 Vanity Fair report, with Bryant admitting she made things up
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Smithsonian.com interviews Till's cousin about the night of the murder
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