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Nov 17, 2016 · 95K. 5.4M views 7 years ago. Emmett Till was brutally killed in the summer of 1955. At his funeral, his mother forced the world to reckon with the brutality of American racism. Subscribe to...
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Sep 2, 2015 · Sixty years ago Jet magazine published photos of the disfigured and decomposed body of slain 14-year-old African American Emmett Till, rattling communities across the country and reigniting...
Fifty thousand people in Chicago saw Emmett Till's corpse with their own eyes. When the magazine Jet ran photos of the body, black Americans across the country shuddered.
Sep 7, 2014 · Many historians say that it was seeing the photos of Emmett Till’s mutilated body in THIS ISSUE (Sept 15, 1955) of Jet Magazine that sparked the Civil Rights Movement.
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Apr 15, 2023 · The photos of Emmett Till's mutilated body stunned the nation. "When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before." In 1955, Mamie Till was...