54 Years Later: The Life and Death of Emmett Till

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In Mississippi, over 500 blacks had been lynched since 1882. Racially motivated murders were not uncommon in the Mississippi Delta and Mamie Till Bradley a schoolteacher in Chicago tried her best to school her 14-year-old son, Emmett about that prior to his trip to the Delta where she had relatives.

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