Popular Name Statutized?:
Y
Type:
Victim
Date Enacted:
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Short Title:
"Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007"
Classification:
28 USC 509 (note)
PL:
110-344
Statute At Large:
122 Stat 3934
Named For?:
Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African-American young man from Chicago who was brutally tortured and murdered after allegedly whistling at a white woman. The killers were tried but acquitted by an all-white jury.
Link/Source:
H.Rpt.110-200, June 19, 2007.
Interesting Part Statutized?:
Y
Notes:
title of statute and short title