Emmett Till
Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African-American boy who was lynched, tortured, and murdered in Mississippi after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the fact of his killers being found not guilty drew many people's attention to the long history of wrongful persecution of African Americans in the United States.