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Louis Till (February 7, 1922 – July 2, 1945) was an African American GI during World War II. After enlisting in the United States Army following trial for domestic violence against his estranged wife Mamie Till, and having chosen military service over jail time, Till was court-martialed on two counts of rape and one count of murder during the ...
Nov 15, 2023 · Louis Till was executed in Italy after a court-martial found him guilty of raping two women and murdering another while serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, but it's long been debated whether he was truly guilty or unfairly targeted because of his race.
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Nov 12, 2016 · A decade before his teenage son was lynched in Mississippi, Louis Till was serving overseas in World War II. Writing to Save a Life explores how Till was convicted of rape and murder and...
Jan 20, 2022 · Louis Till was executed by the military in 1945, while serving in a segregated unit in Italy during World War II. He and another soldier had been convicted of murdering one woman and of raping two ...
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- Adia Robinson
Louis Till (died July 2, 1945) was an American soldier and the father of Emmett Louis Till, whose murder in 1955 at the age of fourteen mobilized the African-American civil rights movement. Louis Till was executed by the U.S. Army in 1945 after being found guilty of murder and rape.
Dec 14, 2016 · Ten years before Emmett was murdered by Mississippi racists, 23-year-old Louis Till was executed by a racist American military system. The coincidences and parallels are almost surreal.
Oct 13, 2022 · Danielle Deadwyler (left) as Mamie Till-Mobley in Till Orion Pictures. Mamie married Louis Till in the fall of 1940 and gave birth to Emmett the following summer. The couple separated...
