Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
This video clip by Ray Metoyer looks at the brutal murder of 14 year old Emmett Till on August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi. It has been uploaded for educational purposes and is suitable for KS4 and KS5 students.
Emmett Till was murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. His assailants—the white woman’s husband and his brother—made Emmett carry a 75-pound cotton gin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchie River and ordered him to take off his clothes. The two men then beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head and then threw his body, tied to the cotton gin fan with barbed wire, into the river.
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This video clip by Ray Metoyer looks at the brutal murder of 14 year old Emmett Till on August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi. It has been uploaded for educational purposes and is suitable for KS4 and KS5 students.
Emmett Till was murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. His assailants—the white woman’s husband and his brother—made Emmett carry a 75-pound cotton gin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchie River and ordered him to take off his clothes. The two men then beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head and then threw his body, tied to the cotton gin fan with barbed wire, into the river.
If you are looking for teaching resources on this topic, then please check out this link to our TES shop: tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11587992
We also have a range of interactive resources and card sorts at these links:
Revision Cards: tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11248549
Continuum Graph: tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11303267
If you would like to support our channel and donate, then please follow this link: buymeacoffee.com/hugybear20c
We have a wide range of teaching resources overing many topics. Please feel free to browse and have a look at what we have to offer: tes.com/teaching-resources/dashboard/overview
