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In August 1955, the body of 14-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till was found in Mississippi’s Tallahatchie River. He had been accused of wolf whistling at a white woman. The county sheriff ordered ...
AMY GOODMAN: — another clip in your film, The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, which was once again Mamie Till Mobley, who only recently died. KEITH BEAUCHAMP: Yes.
The brutal murder of Emmett Till became a major catalyst of the civil rights movement, thanks to a horrific photo of Till's mutilated corpse in Jet magazine. Now, 50 years later, the Justice ...
The Untold Story Of Emmett Louis Till. One of the most powerful, important things a documentary can do is bear witness to man's inhumanity to man, and document for posterity crimes that cry out ...
CORLEY: The voice of Emmett Till's mother opens the documentary, "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till." The film, which was shown to prosecutors last year, details Till's death and the trial of ...
Filmmaker Keith Beauchamp talks about his documentary The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till. Till was murdered 50 years ago. His death is widely viewed as the catalyst for the civil rights movement.
It was one of the most egregious and highly publicized miscarriages of justice in American history: the murder of Emmett Louis Till, a sixteen-year-old black boy who was brutally murdered for the ...
The movie tells the true story of Mamie Till-Mobley’s quest for justice after her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, was lynched while visiting Mississippi in 1955. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...
A new film tells the story of a shocking crime in 1955 that helped spark the civil rights movement. Watch excerpts from Ed Bradley's 2004 "60 Minutes" report that recounts 14-year-old Emmett Till ...
This documentary starts off poorly, with a weak musical score and a meandering focus. But it catches fire when it finally reveals its story, that of Emmett Louis Till, a young black man who was ...
The evils of lynching in the Jim Crow South racked up countless nameless martyrs, but one victim's name still rings out today as a tragic emblem for this ugly symptom of America's violent, racist ...