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aug 8, 1955 - The Murder of Emmett Till, US

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Emmett Louis Till was an African American teenager who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being falsely accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store.

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aug 8, 1955
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~ 70 years ago