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aug 28, 1955 - The death of Emmett Till

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A 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago, Emmett Till was brutally murdered and thrown into the river in Mississippi for flirting with a white woman days earlier.

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aug 28, 1955
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~ 70 years ago

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