Emmett Till, David Jackson, 1955
Emmett Till, a black teenager, was visiting relatives in Mississippi in August 1955 when he stopped at Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market. He came across Carolyn Bryant, a white woman. It is not known whether he whistled at her or flirted with her. What is known is that four days later, Bryant’s husband and half brother picked up Till from his relative’s house, beat him, shot him, strung a barbed wire with a 75-pound metal fan around his neck and then dropped his body in the river.