About+Emmett+TIll

How did the murder of Emmett TIll ignite the racial tension in the South?

 * ===Emmett was 14 when he when on a trip with his cousin to Money, Mississippi. ===
 * ===Before he felt his mother told him to behave because the racial tension was high. ===
 * ===He when into a super market and said " Bye baby" or whistled at her. ===
 * ===The woman's husband and brother when to his house and took him to an old shack and beat him up and drowned him in the Tallahassee river. ===
 * ===They had a trial began on September 19,1955. ===
 * ===They hole jury was white.The 2 men were found NOT GUILTY. ===
 * ===A year later they sold their story to a magazine. ===
 * ===100 days after a black woman refused to give her seat to a white man. ===