In Search of My Great, Great Grandparents: Mapping Seven Generations of Family History

Emmett Till, a fourteen year old child from Chicago, was visiting in Money, Mississippi when he was lynched in August 1955. [...]s murderers threw his body into the Tallahatchie River after a brutal beating, reportedly for whistling at a white woman. Originally planning to research both sides of the family, we ultimately had discovered that we had more solid clues from the paternal side. [...]we focused on the Motleys. [...]the white Motleys, some of whom had owned Buck and Harriet and from whom they had received their surname, became crucial to our research. [...]a black man said, very kindly but emphatically, "You'd better move that car," and quickly hurried away from us.