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Emmett Till  

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  • Emmett Louis Till was an African American teenager whose brutal murder in August 1955 galvanized the nascent civil rights movement in the United States. Born in Chicago in 1941 to Mamie and Louis Till, Emmett “Bobo” Till had just turned 14 when he was savagely beaten, shot to death, and his body dumped into the Tallahatchie River near Money, Mississippi. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime; Till, Emmett]

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