When he visited Mississippi, Emmett Till showed a photo of his white classmates in Chicago and pointed to the white girl, joking that that was his "girlfriend." Sixty-three years later, that girl, Joan Brody, is telling her story publicly for the first time. Wochit
For more than six decades, a mystery has swirled around the Emmett Till case, a mystery involving the photograph of a white girl.
His Mississippi cousins saw the picture and apparently so did his killers.
Till’s murderers “killed him because he boasted of having a white girl and showed them the picture of a white girl in Chicago,” journalist William Bradford Huie told filmmakers for the 1987 "Eyes on the Prize" documentary.
The years have passed, and the long-lost photograph has remained an enigma.
Who was this girl? Did she even exist?
Now, 63 years later, evidence has emerged that the answer is yes.