Born July 25, 1941  in Chicago Illinois Emmett Till was a 14 year old teen who went to visit his relatives in Money, Mississippi where he was murdered for accusingly flirting with Carolyn Bryant, a white women. Till grew up in Chicago with his mother Mrs. Mamie Till-Mobley in a small working class neighborhood  on the south side of Chicago. Back in Chicago Emmett Till went to a segregated elementary school ,but didn’t know of how bad the segregation was in Mississippi. Till, as any other 14  year old boy would, loved playing tricks and pranks. One day Till was explaining to his cousin, Simeon Wright, that back at home he has a white girlfriend, but the segregation there was so bad that no one believed him. Till then walked into the grocery and meat market; while walking  past Bryant, on his way out, he whistled at her. One night, Roy Bryant, Carolyn’s  husband, and J.W. Milam, Carolyn’s brother, came and got Till from his family house. After nearly beating Till to death behind Milam’s home, they then drove him down to Tallahatchie River. This is where they ordered Till to take off his clothes; then they beat him to death, gorged out his eye, shot  him in the head, and then threw his body that was tied to a cotton gin to the bottom  of the river. Mrs. Till wanted the funeral to be open casket once the body was sent back to Chicago so everyone could see how badly he had been treated. On September 23, the jury found the two men not guilty, telling the court that they believe that the people identified the body wrong.