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Why was Emmett Till important?

Updated: 9/13/2023
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Emmett Till was a 14 year-old African American boy who was murdered in Mississippi in 1955. He was killed by two white men after he whistled at the wife of one of the men in a store. The two men were put on trial, and they were not convicted. His story became a famous example of a racist murder. It happened right at the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. His brutal murder, the trial of the two men who killed him, and the surrounding publicity helped to start the main part of the Civil Rights Movement.

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