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Emmett Till was a 14-year old African American boy who tortured and murdered by racists for allegedly flirting with a white woman. At his funeral back home in Chicago, his mother insisted on an open casket funeral to reveal the sadistic torture her son endured. This was an infamous case in the 1950s that brought attention to the barbarism of racism and the lack of American justice to the world.

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