On a hot summer day, a young teenager named Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till saw an attractive woman walk by him. So he did what most young men his age do: He whistled at her. Pretty normal day.

Except that this woman was white, the young teen was black and they were both in Mississippi in 1955. Sadly, this whistle would cost him his life.

The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till is a heartbreaking look into the reality of life in the South before the Civil Rights Movement. The documentary retells the story of Emmett Till, his murder and the following farce of a trial.

Emmett Till was born in July of 1941. He grew up in Chicago, raised by both his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley and grandmother. Like many young boys, he was a prankster. He had a quick wit and didn't always think before he spoke. But according to all who knew him, he was a happy and loving child.

In August of 1955, Emmett went to Money, Mississippi to stay with his grandfather and great uncle. No one explained to him that there were certain "rules" to live by when it came to being black in Mississippi. One afternoon, he, his cousins, and some friends went out to the local store. Inside Carolyn Bryant was working behind the counter. While no one was in the store with him when he paid, Emmett apparently touched Ms. Bryant's hand when he paid for his purchase. That was his first mistake. Afterwards as the group of young men was walking out of the store, Ms. Bryant also came out and went to her car. It was at that point that Emmett turned around and whistled at her.

About three days later, Mose Wright (Emmett's great uncle) opened his front door at 2:30 AM and was met by two white men who were looking for "the boy from Chicago." Claiming that they simply wanted to teach the boy a lesson, Roy Bryant (Carolyn Bryant's husband) and his half-brother J.W. Milam dragged a groggy Emmett Till out of his bed. They told Mose Wright they would let him go.

Emmett Till's body was found a few days later floating in the Tallahatchie River. A 70-pound cotton gin was tied to his neck with a piece of barbed wire. He had been beaten beyond recognition and shot. At his funeral, against the wishes of the Sheriff's department in Mississippi, his mother insisted on having an open casket, so that the world could see what the South had done to her child..