An 18-year-old sharecropper named Willie Reed was out walking by the barn ... "In Mississippi, they're not gonna learn about what happened to Emmett Till," Dickerson said. "It's like the past ...

Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till is born in ... Moses Wright and another poor black Mississippian who testified, Willie Reed, leave Mississippi and are smuggled to Chicago. Once there, Reed collapses ...

The child was fourteen-year-old Emmett Till. He had two terrible hours left to live.' 'Willie Reed hid between the road and the barn as he heard Emmett Till cry out in pain. Emmett didn’t make ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-biography-mamie-till-mobley/ From left: Walter Reed, Willie Reed, Mrs. Mamie Bradley, mother of Emmett ...