Mississippi Trial, 1955

Civil rights era

Why was Emmet Till murdered?

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Emmett is the murder victim of the case, a famous historical figure in real life whose death was one of the factors that sparked the widespread civil rights movement in America. A black teenager and the victim of a racist hate crime, his body was found brutally tortured and disfigured floating in a lake.

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