Emmett Till

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.

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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

Origin

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Occupation

schoolchild

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Snake

Awards & achievements

• 2023 Congressional Gold Medal

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett%20Till
• 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
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q506878

Tags

• Illinois
• schoolchild

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.