Emmett Till's black, broken body was plucked from the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi days after his killing in Aug. 1955, a heavy cotton gin fan tied on his neck with barbed wire.
It took 19 days for two white men, Roy Bryant and his brother-in-law J.W. Milam, to be acquitted of murder by an all-white jury, which deliberated for less than an hour.
Then it took 52 years for historical markers to be erected at locations related to the teenager's death, which galvanized the civil rights movement after the acquittal.
And now, it just took 35 days for someone to shoot at the sign marking where Till's body was pulled from the river.