Lynching & racial terror
The murder of Emmett Till
28 August 1955Money and Glendora, Tallahatchie and Leflore counties, MS
Emmett Till, 14, was abducted from his great-uncle's house near Money, Mississippi and killed for allegedly offending a white woman. His killers were acquitted in 67 minutes.
- People killed
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