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It has been almost 64 years since Emmet Till’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi.
Till was a black, 14-year-old boy visiting family in Mississippi from Chicago.
“Emmett whistled to Carolyn Bryant (a white woman) and supposedly he also made some kind of sexual advances,” Duvalier Malone, political columnist for the Clarion Ledger newspaper said.
Till was kidnapped, tortured, and killed.
If he were still living, Till would have turned 78-years-old on July 25th.