Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley (Photo Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division). By State Representative Kimberly Neely du Buclet In August 1955, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy from Chicago, was brutally murdered while visiting family in Money, Mississippi. The alleged offense? Whistling at a white woman while shopping at a small store. … Continued
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