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Emmett Till's family seeks the arrest of a woman after a 1955 warrant is found Enlarge this image toggle caption AP AP A team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim want authorities to …
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The investigation into the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago ended as it began, with a mystery that might never be solved. Two white men publicly confessed to the slaying after being acquitted by an all-white jury in Mississippi in 1955, but a Justice Department report released last week said at least one …
Emmett Louis Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in 1955 after he allegedly whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. Two white men publicly confessed to the slaying after being acquitted by an all-white jury in Mississippi in 1955, but a Justice Department report released last week said at least one more, unnamed person …
