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A Brutal Lynching And A Possible Confession, Decades Later https://media.npr.org/ass... https://www.npr.org/templ...
A Brutal Lynching And A Possible Confession, Decades Later https://media.npr.org/ass... https://www.npr.org/templ...
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A young man named Emmett Till was lynched in August of 1955 in the small town of Money, Miss. He was 14 years old, an African-American boy from Chicago who was visiting his relatives.
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GOODWYN: The men who murdered an African-American child from Chicago in order to further terrorize the local black community believe they had served the cause of white supremacy well, but in fact, they'd done anything but. Though it would take another decade, Tyson says the seeds of the Voting Rights Act were actually planted in Mississippi in 1955 in the blood of Emmett Till.
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