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Emmett Till and his cousin Wheeler Parker leave Chicago headed to Money, Mississippi.
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Emmett joins a group of teenagers to go to Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market for refreshments to cool off after a long day of picking cotton in the hot sun. Bryant's Grocery, owned by a white couple, Roy and Carolyn Bryant, sells supplies and candy to a primarily black clientele of sharecroppers and their children. Emmett goes into the store to buy bubble gum. Some of the kids outside the store will later say they heard Emmett whistle at Carolyn Bryant.
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J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant abducted Till from his great uncle's home.
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J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant are arrested on kidnapping charges in LeFlore County.
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Three days after he was abducted a fisherman found his body in the river.
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Mississippi Governor Hugh White orders local officials to "fully prosecute" Milam and Bryant in the Till case.
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Mamie Bradley, Emmett's mother, sees his mangled body for the first time.
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In Chicago, Mamie Till arrives at the Illinois Central Terminal to receive Emmett's casket. She is surrounded by family and photographers who snap her photo collapsing in grief at the sight of the casket
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Emmett Till's body is taken to Chicago's Roberts Temple Church of God for viewing and funeral services. Emmett's mother decides to have an open casket funeral.
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They are held in jail until the start of the trial.
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Roy Bryant & J.W. Milam are put on trial in a segregated courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi.
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Moses Wright, Emmett's great uncle, testifies against Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam.
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Roy Bryant & J.W. Milam are found innocent by the al white jury.
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... in light of the Till case. Their report includes quotes from newspapers in six European countries expressing shock and outrage after the Till verdict.
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Just 100 days after the trial of Bryant & Milam, Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white person.
