Emmett Till
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title:
Emmett Till
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Emmett Louis Till was an African American teenager who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States. Till posthumously became an icon of the civil rights movement. Till was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. During summer vacation in Augu
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African American lynching victim (1941–1955)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
date created:
2004-01-14T05:59:38Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T06:24:16Z
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