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Emmett Till lynched after a grocery accusation
August 28, 1955
Money, Mississippi
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A fourteen-year-old from Chicago was accused of whistling at a white woman in a grocery here, taken from his uncle's house at night, tortured and shot. His mother insisted on an open casket so the country would see what had been done. The acquitted men confessed to a magazine months later for $4,000.
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