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emmett arrives in mississippi
Emmett Till arrives at the train station in Grenada, Mississippi, where he is picked up by relatives. Till is planning to stay with his Mississippi relatives on his two-week summer vacation. -
flirting in front of the grocery store
About 7:30 p.m., Till in a carload with seven other young blacks, pulls up in front of Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market in Money, Mississippi. According to one account (Huie's Wolf Whistle), Till is challenged by one of the other blacks to try to get a date with the store's 21-year-old clerk, Carolyn Bryant. (Till had boasted to his relatives about dating a white girl in Chicago and carried a photo of a white girl in his billfold.) Alone in the store with Carolyn Bryant, Till allegedly grabs h -
carolyns husband finds out
Roy Bryant, Carolyn's husband, returns to Mississippi after working on a shrimping boat in Texas. That afternoon, at the store, an African-American teenager tells Roy about the August 24 incident at the store involving Till and his wife -
the last letter he wrote to his mother
About 10:30 p.m., Roy Bryant's half-brother J. W. Milam stops by Bryant's store. Bryant tells Milam that he plans to "whip the niggah." In a letter to his mother, Emmett ("Bobo") writes, "I am having a fine time." -
the night he was murdered
emmett till was taken from his reletives home at was beaten shot and thrown in a river -
emmetts body was recoverd
While fishing in the Tallahatchie River, a 17-year-old boy sees a pair of knees sticking out of the water and calls the sheriff's office. After the body is pulled out of the water, Mose Wright identifies it as being the body of Emmett Till.