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Emmett Till: The 14-Year-Old Boy Who Was Lynched for Whistling at a White Woman in 1955

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In the summer of 1955, Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old boy from Chicago who was looking forward to spending part of his school vacation with relatives in Mississippi. He was born on July 25, 1941, and had grown up on Chicago’s South Side, far from the particular racial customs that governed everyday life in […]

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