History of the United States II / Unit 13 USH2 1854 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Emmett Till
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The idea
In August nineteen fifty-five fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, visiting Mississippi from Chicago, was abducted and murdered after a remark to a White woman.
In practice
His mother insisting on an open casket.
Where people slip
An all-white jury acquitted the two men in an hour and seven minutes, Digital History records; months later, the Yawp says, they boasted of the killing in Look magazine.
Your place on the trail
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