TY - GEN N2 - The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a black boy who whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store in 1955, was a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. Although Till's killers were apprehended, they were quickly acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury and proceeded to sell their story to a journalist, providing grisly details of the murder. Three months after Till's body was recovered, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began. AB - The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a black boy who whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store in 1955, was a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. Although Till's killers were apprehended, they were quickly acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury and proceeded to sell their story to a journalist, providing grisly details of the murder. Three months after Till's body was recovered, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began. T1 - The murder of Emmett Till DA - c2004. CY - Hollywood, Calif. : AU - Nelson, Stanley, AU - Smith, Marcia A. AU - Braugher, Andre. AU - Phillips, Tom. ET - Full screen version. CN - HV6465.M7 CN - HV6465.M7 PB - PBS Home Video, PP - Hollywood, Calif. : LA - Closed-captioned. PY - c2004. N1 - Originally broadcast in 2003 as part of the television series The American experience. ID - 428135 KW - Lynching KW - African Americans KW - African American teenage boys. SN - 079369552X SN - 9780793695522 TI - The murder of Emmett Till ER -