aug 29, 1955 - Emmit Till Murdured

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While visiting family in Mississippi, Fourteen-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till is kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and dumped in a River for allegedly whistling at a white woman. The two men accused of the murder are white, and are acquitted of the crime by an all-white jury. After the trial the men bragged about getting away with murder.

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