His name was Emmet Till.

He was a 14-year-old boy from a working-class neighborhood in Chicago who was brutally murdered by white racists in Mississippi in 1955.

In 1955, Till visited his family in Money, Mississippi, when he was falsely accused of whistling at Carolyn Bryant, a white female cashier in a grocery store.

In 2017 it was revealed that Bryant admitted she lied about the boy making advances towards her.

Four days after the alleged "incident," Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J.W. Milam, kidnapped, viciously tortured and shot dead the 14-year-old boy, throwing his body in the Tallahatchie River, tied to a metal fan.

His body was found days later.

In a historical act of courage, Till's mother, Mamie Till Bradley, organized an open casquet funeral in Chicago to reveal the atrocities perpetrated by racists in the US.

"Let the people see what I've seen," she is reported to have said.

Thousands attended the funeral and many more saw pictures in the media, exposing the racist atrocities prevalent in the US.

An all-white jury declared Bryant and Milam not guilty.

This galvanized the civil rights movement and Till's death resonate to this day.

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