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Till: Racial division and redemption

By Rusty Wright
Published October 22, 2022 10:00am ET
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Till: Racial division and redemption
An undated portrait of Emmett Louis Till, a black 14 year old Chicago boy, whose weighted down body was found in the Tallahatchie River near the Delta community of Money, Mississippi, August 31, 1955. | (AP Photo, File)

White racists brutally murdered young Emmett Till in 1955 in Mississippi. His death, and his mother Mamie’s reaction to it, helped spark the civil rights movement. Till tells their compelling story.

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