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Emmett Till

エメット・ティル　/　えめっと・てぃる

American schoolchild

July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955　・　Chicago, Illinois, United States

Illinois
schoolchild

My Take

I hesitate to call Emmett Till a celebrity; he was a fourteen-year-old boy from Chicago whose murder in Mississippi forced America to look at itself. What stays with me is his mother's decision to hold an open-casket funeral, turning private grief into public testimony, an act of courage that helped ignite the civil rights movement. The 2023 Congressional Gold Medal was overdue recognition, but no medal closes that wound. I include him here because remembering matters: every entry in a database like this is a life, and his was stolen. His name deserves to outlast the names of the men who took it.

Overview

Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African-American boy who, at 14 years old, was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Emmett Till
Name (Japanese): エメット・ティル
Reading: えめっと・てぃる
Born: July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Leo / Snake
Origin: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: schoolchild

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

Awards & achievements

2023 Congressional Gold Medal

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%A1%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB

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