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Emmett Till

Emmett Till – 14 year old

httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKsk5HNvFpE 14 year old Emmett Till, doing as black children from Chicago often did during the summer, was down South visiting his extended family in Mississippi. In the shadows of Smith’s murder, Emmett Till himself was kidnapped, tortured, mutilated, shot to death, then weighed down and dumped him in the Tallahatchie River. For the past...

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EmmettTill – The Chicago pastor recalls the night 60 years ago

httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-X4is9jMYk The Chicago pastor recalls the night 60 years ago when two white men came for his cousin Emmett Till. The choice by Till’s mother, Mamie Till Mobley, to hold an open-coffin funeral in Chicago gave tens of tens of thousands of individuals the opportunity to view his mutilated body. The 60th anniversary of Till’s...

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Emmett Till – Will Smith and Jay Z will co-produce an HBO miniseries

httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-X4is9jMYk Will Smith and Jay Z will co-produce an HBO miniseries. Will Smith and Jay Z are among the producers partnering with HBO to tell the story of Emmett Till, a black teenager killed in 1955 after being accused of flirting with a white woman in Mississippi. Till, a 14-year-old Chicagoan visiting family in Money,...

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