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aug 28, 1955 - Lynching of Emmett Till

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While visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier.

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aug 28, 1955
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~ 70 years ago

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