![Funeral for Emmett Till, lynched in 1955, unfolds every day in the nation's capital - The Washington Post Funeral for Emmett Till, lynched in 1955, unfolds every day in the nation's capital - The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/YS4LD2UF6MI6RHQGJW2SVRBOAU.jpg&w=1200)
Funeral for Emmett Till, lynched in 1955, unfolds every day in the nation's capital - The Washington Post
![Keith Beauchamp on Twitter: "At approximately 2:30 in the morning on August 28, 1955, Roy Bryant, J.W. Milam and others kidnapped #EmmettTill from Moses Wright's home. They then tortured Emmett, shot him Keith Beauchamp on Twitter: "At approximately 2:30 in the morning on August 28, 1955, Roy Bryant, J.W. Milam and others kidnapped #EmmettTill from Moses Wright's home. They then tortured Emmett, shot him](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ege-UZoXsAYdh7K.jpg:large)
Keith Beauchamp on Twitter: "At approximately 2:30 in the morning on August 28, 1955, Roy Bryant, J.W. Milam and others kidnapped #EmmettTill from Moses Wright's home. They then tortured Emmett, shot him
![Display inside the Emmett Till Historic Intrepid Center in an old cotton-gin building in tiny Glendora, Mississippi | Library of Congress Display inside the Emmett Till Historic Intrepid Center in an old cotton-gin building in tiny Glendora, Mississippi | Library of Congress](http://tile.loc.gov/image-services/iiif/service:pnp:highsm:42600:42674/full/pct:25/0/default.jpg)
Display inside the Emmett Till Historic Intrepid Center in an old cotton-gin building in tiny Glendora, Mississippi | Library of Congress
![A cotton-gin fan is presented as evidence in the trial investigating the death of 14-year-old Chicago boy Emmett Louis Till, in Sumner, Miss., on September 22, 1955. The fan had been tied A cotton-gin fan is presented as evidence in the trial investigating the death of 14-year-old Chicago boy Emmett Louis Till, in Sumner, Miss., on September 22, 1955. The fan had been tied](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2NGF47F/a-cotton-gin-fan-is-presented-as-evidence-in-the-trial-investigating-the-death-of-14-year-old-chicago-boy-emmett-louis-till-in-sumner-miss-on-september-22-1955-the-fan-had-been-tied-around-the-boys-neck-with-barbed-wire-when-his-body-was-found-in-the-tallahatchie-river-near-the-delta-community-of-money-mississippi-on-august-31-1955-ap-photo-2NGF47F.jpg)