In August 1955, Emmett Till traveled from his home in Chicago ... and thrown into the Tallahatchie River with a 70-pound cotton gin fan tied around his neck. The Trial and Carolyn Bryant’s ...

Emmett Till's body was found in the Tallahatchie River, a heavy gin fan tied around his neck ... leaving behind his 1941 Ford and his cotton blooming in the fields. Moses returned in November ...

A journalist whose 1956 article was billed as the “true account” of Emmett ... Till was either dead or dying when he was ...