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Emmett Louis Till
28 Aug 1955
Money, MS
Fun-loving Emmett Till of Chicago was on summer vacation with relatives when he apparently whistled at a white woman.
Two white men kidnapped, beat and shot Till, 14, and three him in the Tallahatchie River. Though his killers were acquitted, Till's brutalized face. photographed in his casket, helped launch the civil rights movement. |