TY - ADVS AU - Braugher,Andre AU - Erskine,Lewis AU - Grant,Laurens AU - Kosersky,Rena C. AU - Nelson,Stanley AU - Palmer,Amilca AU - Phillips,Tom AU - Shepard,Robert AU - Smith,Marcia ED - Firelight Media. ED - PBS Home Video. ED - WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.) ED - WGBH Educational Foundation. TI - The murder of Emmett Till SN - 079369552X PY - 2003/// CY - Boston, Alexandria, Va. PB - WGBH Educational Foundation, PBS Home Video KW - Till, Emmett, KW - African American teenage boys KW - Mississippi KW - Biography KW - African Americans KW - Crimes against KW - History KW - 20th century KW - DVD KW - Lynching KW - Racism KW - Trials (Murder) KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - Race relations KW - Documentary films KW - Films for the hearing impaired KW - Historical films N1 - Originally broadcast as part of the television series The American experience; Cinematographer, Robert Shepard ; edited by Lewis Erskine ; narrator, Andre Braugher ; composer, Tom Phillips; Cinematographer, Robert Shepard ; editor, Lewis Erskine ; composer, Tom Phillips ; coordinating producer, Laurens Grant ; assistance producer, Amilca Palmer ; sound supervisor, Rena C. Kosersky; Narrator, Andre Braugher; MPAA rating: Not rated N2 - The shameful, sadistic 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 ER -