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The Lynching of Emmett Till
Associated Press

1955

The Lynching of Emmett Till

A gang of white men brutally tortured and murderd 14-year-old Emmett Till after being accused of whisteling at a white woman. Till's mother held an open casket funeral to make a public statement on lynching and its horror.

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