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Emmett Till’s Murder- August 28, 1955
Emmett Till was murdered on August 28, 1955. He was a fourteen-year-old boy at the time when he was murdered. Till was accused of flirting and touching the store worker named Bryant. Several nights after the encounter between Bryant and Till, Bryant's husband and his half-brother went out to find Till and beat him and mutilated him before finally shooting him in the head.