Video: 'Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam Acquitted of Emmett Till’s Murder on This Day'

(Friday, September 23, 1955, at 3:43 p.m. CST) — Two Mississippi white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, accused of murdering 14-year-old Chicago African-American Emmett Louis Till after he had supposedly whistled at a white woman were acquitted today in Sumner, Mississippi.

A jury of twelve white neighbors of the defendants reached the verdict after one hour and five minutes of deliberations. The two men later admitted to the crime in an interview with Look magazine.