emmett till sweatshirtEmmett Till was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he had his fateful encounter with then 20 year old Carolyn Bryant in the summer of 1955. Accounts from that day differ, but witnesses alleged Emmett whistled at the woman at the market she owned with her husband. Four days later, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam later took Emmett from his bed in the middle of the night, and beat him before shooting him in the head and tossing his body into the