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The Write Team Daily: "Emmett Till'
September 23, 1955. Sumner, Mississippi.
Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till had been brutally murdered after traveling from Chicago to visit relatives in Mississippi. His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, made the courageous decision to let the world see what had been done to her son.
Then came the trial.
On September 23, an all-white, all-male jury acquitted Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam of Till's murder. Months later, protected from another murder prosecution by double jeopardy, the two men publicly admitted killing him.
The verdict became one of the defining injustices associated with the emerging Civil…
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