Today marks the 70th anniversary of a historic lynching that still shocks us when we think about it. The victim of the lynching was Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black teenager from Chicago, who on Aug.

A SPECIAL COMMITTEE MEETS AGAIN SEPTEMBER 25TH. DAYS AFTER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MADE RECORDS ON THE LYNCHING OF EMMETT TILL PUBLIC-- HIS FAMILY TALKS ABOUT THE CONTINUED CALL FOR JUSTICE IN HIS ...

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The Alsip cemetery is the final resting place of Mamie and Emmett Till, rapper King Von, singer Dinah Washington and ...