Emmett Till Lynched in Mississippi, Civil Rights Movement Shaken, August 28, 1955
Black teenager Emmett Till is lynched in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
Date: August 28, 1955
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