Sunday, December 25, 2022
Emmett Till And His Mother Posthumously Awarded Congressional Gold Medal | HuffPost Latest News
Till was a Black 14-year-old who was kidnapped and lynched in 1955 by two white men in Mississippi after he was accused of whistling at a white woman. His mother, who died in 2003, insisted that he have an open casket, so as to make clear the brutality of her son's death and the racism and injustice that led to it. Till's death is today considered a catalyst of the American civil rights movement...
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