US Civil Rights: the lynching of Emmett Till
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The Tragic Story of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a 14 year old African American youth from Chicago who in the summer of 1955 took a train to Mississippi with his great uncle and a cousin. He broke one of the taboos that he did not understand but which black people in Mississippi understood well, and that is a black man talking in any way familiar with a white woman. Devery Anderson, an author who's written a biography of Till, shares the teenager's tragic story.
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