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fromAxios
4 days ago
Social justice

Emmett Till family re-creates train ride from Chicago to Mississippi to mark 70th anniversary

Family and witnesses rode from Chicago to Greenwood on the anniversary of Emmett Till's murder to honor him and underscore ongoing racial injustice.
fromwww.npr.org
4 days ago
US news

70 years after Emmett Till's murder, Mississippi museum acquires gun used to kill him

Mississippi archives acquired the pistol believed to have been used to lynch Emmett Till, a killing that galvanized the civil rights movement.
fromAxios
4 days ago
Social justice

Emmett Till family re-creates train ride from Chicago to Mississippi to mark 70th anniversary

fromThe Atlantic
4 days ago

Seeing Emmett Till's Murder Weapon

J.W. Milam's pistol, believed by the FBI to have fired the shot that killed Emmett Till, is now displayed at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.
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