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September 21, 1955
THE DETROIT NEWS, Michigan MI September 1, 1955
* Emmett Louis 'Bobo' Till found dead (1st report)
* Mississippi Delta...
This 70 page newspaper a one column headline on page 4:
* Find Chicago Boy Slain in Mississippi
with smaller subheads. (see)
Other news of the day throughout. Some margin wear on unrleated pages including the front page with some margin tape mending, otherwise good.
source: wikipedia: Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till (July 25, 1941August 28, 1955) was an African-American teenager from Chicago, Illinois who was brutally murdered in a region of Mississippi known as the Mississippi Delta in the small town of Money in Leflore County. His murder was one of the key events that energized the nascent American Civil Rights Movement. The main suspects for the crime both Caucasian menwere acquitted but later admitted to committing the crime. Till's mother had an open casket funeral to let everyone see how her son had been brutally killed. He had been shot and beaten; he was then thrown into the Tallahatchie River with a 75-pound cotton gin fan tied to his neck with barbed wire as a weight. His body stayed in the river for three days until it was discovered and retrieved by two fishermen.
* Emmett Louis 'Bobo' Till found dead (1st report)
* Mississippi Delta...
This 70 page newspaper a one column headline on page 4:
* Find Chicago Boy Slain in Mississippi
with smaller subheads. (see)
Other news of the day throughout. Some margin wear on unrleated pages including the front page with some margin tape mending, otherwise good.
source: wikipedia: Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till (July 25, 1941August 28, 1955) was an African-American teenager from Chicago, Illinois who was brutally murdered in a region of Mississippi known as the Mississippi Delta in the small town of Money in Leflore County. His murder was one of the key events that energized the nascent American Civil Rights Movement. The main suspects for the crime both Caucasian menwere acquitted but later admitted to committing the crime. Till's mother had an open casket funeral to let everyone see how her son had been brutally killed. He had been shot and beaten; he was then thrown into the Tallahatchie River with a 75-pound cotton gin fan tied to his neck with barbed wire as a weight. His body stayed in the river for three days until it was discovered and retrieved by two fishermen.
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