The Murder of Emmett Till (film)

The Murder of Emmett Till is a 2003 documentary film produced by

PBS program American Experience. The film chronicles the story of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi in 1955. He was brutally murdered by two white men after a white woman falsely^[1]

claimed that he had whistled at and groped her.

Emmett's mother, Mamie Till Bradley, insisted on a public funeral with an open casket. Photos of the decaying and mutilated body flooded newspapers, putting the case on the map both nationally and internationally. The two men accused of his murder were acquitted after a short five-day trial with an all-white male jury, making a mockery of any possibility of justice. Shortly afterward, the defendants sold their story to journalists detailing how they carried out the murder. The Emmett Till case was a significant motivator of the

Civil Rights Movement, and the Montgomery bus boycott began three months after his body was discovered in the Tallahatchie River

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Awards

2004 Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Film and Digital Media

2003
Emmy Award – Best Non-fiction Director Stanley Nelson

2003 Emmy Nomination – Best Screenplay Marcia Smith

2003 International Documentary Association Awards – Distinguished Documentary Achievement
2003 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award
2003
Peabody Award

References

^ Weller, Sheila (January 26, 2017). "How Author Timothy Tyson Found the Woman at the Center of the Emmett Till Case". Vanity Fair.

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