aug 24, 1955 - Lynching of Emmett Till

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14-year-old Emmett Till reportedly flirted with a white cashier in Money, Mississippi. Four days later, two white men tortured and murdered Till. His murder galvanized the emerging Civil Rights Movement.
Emmett was put in an open casket at his funeral so the world could see what his racist attackers and racism in the U.S. had done.

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