Emmett Till’s murder In 1955, fourteen year old Emmett Till was brutally murdered because he flirted with a white woman. Him and some of his friends went to a grocery store and later said Emmett either whistled, flirted with, or touched store owner, Carolyn Bryant. Before, he was dared to do it, but we'll never know. When his friends say he whistled, he actually had a stutter from polio and when he had a hard word to say, he had learned to whistle. His mother was very fearful about what was going to go down because her and her family were African American.When Carolyn’s husband, Roy, herd, he got infuriated and decided to kidnap Emmett from his own bed with his friend Millam. First, they ragged him out of his bed and