14 year old boy murdered Wrote:
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> Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28,
> 1955) was a 14-year-old African American who was
> lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being
> accused of offending a white woman in her family's
> grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the
> fact that his killers were acquitted drew
> attention to the long history of violent
> persecution of African Americans in the United
> States. Till posthumously became an icon of the
> Civil Rights Movement.
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> Emmett was 14 years one month old when he was
> brutally beaten and murdered by white savages -
> they were never convicted despite abundant
> evidence and eye witnesses.
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> Emmetts dad was tried and convicted of murder/rape
> and hanged. One-way justice
Behave yourself.