The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (DVD) 

In August 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley of Chicago sent her only child, 14 year-old Emmett Louis Till, to visit relatives in the Mississippi Delta. Little did she know that only eight days later, Emmett would be abducted from his great-uncle's home, brutally beaten and murdered by one of the oldest Southern taboos: whistling at a white woman in public. The murderers were soon arrested but later acquitted of murder by an all-white, all-male jury. As a result of the new revelations uncovered from this documentary, the U.S. Department of Justice reopened this infamous case on May 10, 2004 - just a few months shy of the 50th Anniversary of Emmett Till's murder. Indictments may come down in early 2006. 

Keith Beauchamp's groundbreaking dvdis the result of a 10-year journey to uncover the truth behind the nightmarish murder of an innocent African-American teenager Emmett Louis Till. Emmett’s brutal murder  and his family’s brave actions in the horrifying aftermath served as a major impetus for America's civil rights movement and led to Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to make decisions that changed the course of history.

Discover for yourself why the Chicago Tribune wrote, "If you don’t believe film can change the world, you haven’t seen The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till."