The Life and Times of Emmett Till

When Emmett Till came to Mississippi in 1955, it was fully segregated. His friends saw him as a practical joker who needed to be the center of attention. Most black citizens in the south at the time were impoverished and worked as sharecroppers or domestic servants.

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