Enough is Enough: How the Murder of a Fourteen-Year-Old Boy Changed America

On August 28, 1955, a fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago was brutally tortured and murdered in the heart of the former Confederate state of Mississippi while he was visiting family. At the time, this was a regular occurrence in the South of the United States. The Civil War and reconstruction of the union had not gone over well, many white Southerners still clung to their archaic way of life and used violence against African Americans to impose control over the region. However, Emmett Till’s death would not be another forgotten murder the same way so many other African American deaths were. Emmett’s mother Mamie Till-Mobley was a fighter, and would not let her boy’s death be forgotten, she would let the world see the horror that his murderers had inflicted on her boy. Emmett Till’s death changed the course of United States history by raising awareness of the suffering of African Americans, bolstering and uniting the civil rights movement, and inspiring legal reforms that would help to guarantee the civil rights of all groups in the United States. <a href="https://medium.com/@benjaminbenson303/enough-is-enough-how-the-murder-of-a-fourteen-year-old-boy-changed-america-ab97132ae429">Learn More</a>