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Documentarian Tells the Untold Story of Emmett Louis Tillnew
Keith Beauchamp has produced a documentary that chronicles the events leading up to and after Emmett Louis Till’s murder. It is because of this documentary that the 1955 case was reopened last year.
Jackson Free Press |
Lea Thomas |
12-01-2005 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
The Day That Emmett Diednew
It was Saturday night, Aug. 27, 1955, when a group of men in Mississippi beat, tortured and murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till for whistling at a white woman. Lea Thomas revisits the events of his last day.
Jackson Free Press |
Lea Thomas |
12-01-2005 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
