Find out more about the people and events featured in the film.
People:
Emmett Louis Till (1941-1955) Mamie Till Mobley (1921-2003) Moses and Elizabeth Wright Roy Bryant (1931-1994), Carolyn Bryant (1934-) and J. W. Milam (1919-1981) Clarence Strider (1904 -1970)
Events:
The Trial of J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant Lynching in America Sharecropping in Mississippi Citizens' Councils Brown v. Board of Education (1954) The Impact of Emmett Till's Murder
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