Emmett Till

Listening Tree Video (LT) April 21, 2021 EMMETT TILL

Emmett Till was brutally killed in the summer of 1955. At his funeral, his mother forced the world to reckon with the brutality of American racism.

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Encyclopaedia Africana J October 11, 2020 JAMES BALDWIN

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

E Encyclopaedia Africana August 21, 2020 Emmett Till murder: The full text testimony of Carolyn Bryant

She later told an author, in a book published this year, that parts of the account she gave in 1955 were untrue.

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