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Emmett Till is Murdered

September 13, 2022
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By Ari Bachechi
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The front page of the Chicago Defender from September 1955. The main headline reads "Nation Shocked, Vow Action in Lynching of Chicago Youth" above a photo of Emmett Till.

Till was a 14-year-old boy from Chicago brutally murdered in Mississippi. His killers were acquitted, but the case brought international attention to the Civil Rights Movement.

Ari Bachechi