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Negro Emmett Till's body found....
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September 02, 1955
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, Boston, Massachusetts, September 2, 1955
* Emmett Louis 'Bobo' Till found dead
* Mississippi Delta... (1st report)
This 14 page newspaper has a one column headline on page 3: "Delta Slaying Probed".
Other news of the day throughout. Little spine wear, otherwise in good condition.
wikipedia notes: 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 men were 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
* Mississippi Delta... (1st report)
This 14 page newspaper has a one column headline on page 3: "Delta Slaying Probed".
Other news of the day throughout. Little spine wear, otherwise in good condition.
wikipedia notes: 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 men were 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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