• Director: Keith Beauchamp
  • Release Year: 2005
  • Production Country: United States
  • Language: English

The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till

Description

In 1955, Emmett Till, a young black teenager from Chicago spending the summer in Mississippi, was kidnapped and brutally murdered after he reportedly flirted with a young white woman; his murder became the event that galvanized the Civil Rights Movement.

Themes

United States, Mississippi, Social Justice, African Americans, Racial conflict, Hate crimes, Social conditions, African American Civil Rights Movement (1955 – 1968)