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    EMMETT TILL THE MURDER THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

    Jul 13, 2020 2 minutes
    By April Glover

    In August 1955, a 14-year-old African American boy named Emmett Till went into a Mississippi grocery store to buy a 2 cent stick of gum.

    The Chicago teenager was visiting the Southern state that summer, staying with his uncle Mose Wright in the town of Money.

    In the family-owned grocery store, Emmett was served by Carolyn Bryant, a 21-year-old married white woman.

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