CBS News Charles M. Blow on Derek Chauvin trial: "This time … history would not be repeated" The New York Times columnist compares the 1955 trial of Whites accused of lynching Black teenager Emmett Till, and the conviction of a former Minneapolis policeman for murdering George Floyd: The Rev. Jesse Jackson has called the lynching of Emmett Till the "Big Bang" of the Civil Rights movement. Till was a 14-year-old Chicago boy who, in the summer of 1955, was kidnapped from his great-uncle's house in Money, Miss., in the middle of the night. He was brutally beaten, forced to strip naked, shot in the face, and then tied with barbed wire to the fan of a cotton gin and thrown into the Tallahatchie River.