In June, relatives of Emmett Till called for Donham’s arrest after ... body was found in the Tallahatchie River, tied to a cotton-gin fan and bound in barbed wire, Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley ...

Emmett Till's black, broken body was plucked from the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi days after his killing in Aug. 1955, a heavy cotton gin fan tied on his neck with barbed wire. It took 19 ...

On this bank, the grass grows tall. This is the place where, 66 years ago, a fisherman found Emmett Till’s body. His killers fastened a cotton gin fan around his neck with barbed wire to weigh ...

Barbed wire was wrapped around his neck and he was weighted down with a cotton gin fan. Till's mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in Chicago, and Jet magazine published photos of his corpse.

This plaque at the Tallahatchie River – replaced every now and then every time it's been riddled with bullets – marks the spot where young Emmett ... a cotton gin fan wrapped around his ...

Emmett Till arrived in Money on Aug. 21 ... Bryant and Milam then used barbed wire to tie a large cotton-gin fan to Till's neck, before dumping his body in the river.Wright reported the kidnapping ...

While there’s genuine excitement over getting the Emmett Till and Mamie ... is believed to be the place where Till’s killers found a 75-pound cotton gin fan that they attached to the teen's ...

Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman at the center of the Emmett Till lynching ... been weighed down by a cotton-gin fan, was pulled from the river days later. Till’s slaying became a catalyst ...

Emmett Till’s black, broken body was plucked from the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi days after his killing in Aug. 1955, a heavy cotton gin fan tied on his neck with barbed wire. It took 19 ...