Emmett Till (1941–l1955)

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• The struggle in general for civil rights after the Second World War

The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi

By William Bradford Huie, PBS, 27 February 2006, originally an article in Look, ca. 1955. Am account of the slaying in Mississippi of a Negro youth named Emmett Till. Last September in Sumner, Miss., a petit jury found the youth's admitted abductors not guilty of murder. In November, in Greenwood, a grand jury declined to indict them for kidnapping.

Emmett Till, Malcolm X and the capitalist state

By Monica Moorehead, Workers World, 20 May 2004. Till's lynching in 1955, one of countless thousands in the semi-enslaved South, was viewed by many as a major catalyst for the launching of the historic civil rights struggle.