All-white jury acquits Bryant and Milam in the Emmett Till murder

An all-white jury in Sumner, Mississippi deliberated 67 minutes before acquitting Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam for the kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago. The courtroom was segregated throughout the trial, and Black witnesses faced intimidation. Bryant and Milam confessed to the killing in a 1956 Look magazine interview, knowing double jeopardy protection barred retrial.