How Emmett Till Changed the World
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The brutal lynching of a Black teen in Mississippi helped shape the civil-rights movement and became the first Black Lives Matter case.
William Lanier courtesy of the NAACP
Before Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, and 12-year-old Tamir Rice, there was Emmett Till.
Till, a 14-year-old Chicago native, was brutally beaten and lynched while visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, in the summer of 1955.
His crime? Allegedly whistling at a white woman.
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