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aug 28, 1955 - Emmett Till Murdered

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Emmett Till, a black fourteen-year-old, was visiting his family in Mississippi when he was kidnapped, beaten, shot, and dumped in a river because he whistled at a white woman. The men who did this, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, were arrested for murder, but they were proven innocent by an all-white jury.

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