ate. Naive to the racist customs of the South, Till went inside the store, hugged Carol Bryant's waist, and squeezed her hand. He even whistled at her as his friends rushed him away. On August 28, 1955, Carol Bryant's husband, Roy, and his half brother, J.W. Milam, took Emmett from his Uncle's home. His body was found three days later in the Tallahatchie River, naked, beaten, decomposed, and shot in the head. The two white men were tried one month later by an all white jury, and despite the fact that they admitted abducting Till, they were acquitted because the body was too badly mangled to be positively identified. His mother insisted on an open-casket funeral to show what the white men had done to her son. Photographs of Till's body were reprinted across the c
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