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Today in History: August 28, Emmett Till’s brutalized body found


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The crowd files past the open casket of Emmett Till inside Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ to pay their respects at his funeral on Sept. 3, 1955, in Chicago. (Phil Mascione/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle’s home in Money, Mississippi, by two white men after he had allegedly whistled at a white woman four days prior; he was found brutally slain three days later.


Originally published at Associated Press

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