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Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy, was brutally murdered in 1955 while visiting relatives in Mississippi. He was accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's store. After being abducted, Till was tortured and killed by two white men, who later were acquitted by an all-white jury. His death and the subsequent trial highlighted the deep-seated racism and injustice in the American South, becoming a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.

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