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    Why was Emmett Till murdered?

    Question #47328. Asked by Buck540. (May 10 04 8:24 PM)


    rlaj

    		Emmett Till was killed in Mississippi in 1955 for whistling at Carolyn Bryant, a white women.
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/timeline/index.html

    May 10 04, 9:32 PM

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