aug 28, 1955 - The Murder of Emmett Till

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In Mississippi, Louisiana
Emmett Till 'wolf whistled' at a white women, then hunted down by 2 white men. these two men took him to a barn where he was tortured, gotten his eyes gauged out, beaten to death and then shot in the head, then after he was lynched.

What happened to Emmett Till was Barbaric and was absolute savagery, but it had a so much significance to human/ civil rights. if no one had witnessed what happened to him, no one would have realised how out of control it had become.

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