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Paul Robeson's Telegram about the Till Trial
Singer, actor, and civil liberties advocate Paul Robeson (1898–1976) sent this telegram in response to an all-white jury acquittal of two white men accused of the murder of Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, who went to visit relatives in Leflore County, Mississippi, in the summer of 1955. The verdict stirred the nation to outrage. A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and elder statesman of the civil rights movement, called for a mass demonstration. |