Poster of Cast and Crew in American Experience - Season 15 - Episode 6 - The Murder of Emmett Till

American Experience - Season 15 - The Murder of Emmett Till (Episode 6)

Plot: Recalling the 1955 murder of a 14-year-old black youth in the Mississippi delta, an incident that could very well have launched the civil-rights movement. "He was a sacrificial lamb," says Mamie Till of her son Emmett, a fun-loving Chicago teen who was slain after whistling at a white woman outside a general store in Tallahatchee County, Miss
Episode Aired On:
Monday, January 20 2003
22 years ago