From the Stacks: "The Blood of Emmett Till" offers harrowing look into the past
On August 31, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till's body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River in northern Mississippi. A heavy cotton gin fan had been tied around his neck with barbed wire. Hours later, when asked to identify the boy's body, Emmett's great uncle, Moses Wright, could only recognize him by the ring Emmett wore in memory of his father.