aug 28, 1955 - Lynching of Emmit Till
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Emmit Till was a 14 year- old African American from Chicago. While visiting his uncle in Money, Alabama, he was brutally murdered and lynched for allegedly flirting with a white woman. Emmit Till's killers were found not-guilty, but his death shocked the nation through mass media.
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