Sheriff: Arrest warrant moot for kidnapping of Emmett TillA Mississippi sheriff says in a new court filing that thereโs no point in serving an arrest warrant on a white woman in the 1955 kidnapping that led to the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till.
Nearly 70 years later, Emmett Tillโs family still pushing for justice to be served in his brutal murderThe story of Emmett Till is considered to be the catalyst of the civil rights movement back in the 1950s.
Lawsuit seeks white woman's arrest in Emmett Till kidnappingA relative of Emmett Till is suing to make a Mississippi sheriff serve a 1955 arrest warrant on a white woman in the kidnapping that led to Till's lynching.