Emmett Till
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Emmett Louis Till
Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African-American teenager who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. Till was from Chicago, Illinois, visiting his relatives in Money, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region, when he spoke to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, the married proprietor of a small grocery store there. Several nights later, Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam went to Till's great-uncle's house. They took Till away to a barn, where they beat him and gouged out one of his eyes, before shooting him through the head and disposing of his body in the Tallahatchie River, weighting it with a 70-pound (32 kg) cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire. Three days later, Till's body was discovered and retrieved from the river.
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Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
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2003
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White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era – A Race Relations Scholar's Meditation on Personal Responsibility
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2006
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A Wreath for Emmett Till
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2005
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
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2003
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Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till
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2010
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A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till
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1988
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The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative
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2002
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The Murder of Emmett Till
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2007
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The Murder of Emmett Till
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2010
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The Face of Emmett Till
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