BY: LEON KWASI KUNTUO-ASARE Emmett Louis Till was born on July 25, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois, he was the son of Mamie Carthan and Louis Till. In the late summer of 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, he allegedly made the unfortunate mistake of being an African-American male and flirting with a 21 year old white woman (Carolyn Bryant … Continue reading BLACK HISTORY SPOTLIGHT : EMMETT TILL!