Emmett Till
#891
Most Influential Person Across History
African-American lynching victim
Why Is Emmett Till Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Emmett Louis Till was an African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14, 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. Till posthumously became an icon of the civil rights movement.
