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...in 1955 and this particular murder served to instigate a great deal of turmoil in many respects. There were those who wished to get to the truth and those who wished to simply dismiss the incident because it involved an African American. It was, however, also an incident that served to instigate new struggles in the civil rights movement. The following paper examines the situations, the trial and ensuing activities, regarding Emmett Till.

Emmett Till
In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old black boy whistled at a white woman in a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. Emmett Till, a teen from Chicago, didn't understand that he had broken the unwritten laws of the Jim Crow South until three days later, when two white men dragged him from his bed in the dead of night, beat him brutally and then shot him in the head. PBS, The Murder of Emmett Till; American Experience; available from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/filmmore/index.html;...

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