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The NAACP's Report on the Emmett Till Murder
In the fall of 1955, NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers, Southeast Regional Director Ruby Hurley, and Amzie Moore, president of the Bolivar County branch in Mississippi initiated an investigation of Emmett Till's lynching and secured key witnesses. In his annual report, Evers included an account of Till's kidnapping, lynching, and the trial of his killers. |