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Two days later, Emmett Till’s uncle, Moses Wright, was scheduled to leave Chicago to head back to Money, Mississippi, where he and his family needed to start the cotton-picking season.

In 2021 President Joe Biden signed into law H.R.55 — Emmett Till Antilynching Act — which finally made lynching a federal hate crime.

On Aug. 24, 1955, she and 14-year-old Till were alone in a general store in Money, Miss. Afterward, she accused Till of coming into the store and putting "his left hand" on her waist.

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"Till" is based on Mamie Till-Mobley's pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who was brutally lynched and killed in 1955 while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.

MOUND BAYOU, Miss. (AP) — The tiny, all-Black town of Mound Bayou became a safe haven for Emmett Till’s mother as she traveled to Mississippi to testify in the murder trial of two white men ...

Their story is told in the new film Till. This is how Emmett Till’s murder, and his fearless mother, helped ignite the American civil rights movement.

The tiny, all-Black town of Mound Bayou became a safe haven for Emmett Till’s mother as she traveled to Mississippi to testify in the murder trial of two white men who lynched her son in 1955.

Jalyn Hall as Emmett Till in TILL, directed by Chinonye Chukwu, released by Orion Pictures. Credit: Lynsey Weatherspoon / Orion Pictures© 2022 ORION RELEASING LLC.