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PBS - American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/
The brutal murder in 1955 that mobilized the civil rights movement: the film, special features, timeline, people and events, teacher's guide, background information and forum. |
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University of Virginia Press - The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative - http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/metress.html
Reviews of a book, a collection of more than one hundred documents spanning almost half a century, about the murder that set off the civil rights movement. |
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Emmet Louis Till - http://www.karisable.com/crhateemtill.htm
Overviews the story of this 14-year-old boy's murder, his killers' acquittal, their sale of their confession to a magazine, and Mrs. Till's work to see that her son had not died in vain. |
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NPR - Feds to Re-Open Case of 1955 Murder of Emmett Till - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1893674
Tavis Smiley talks with Keith Beauchamp, a filmmaker from New York who spent the last nine years making the documentary "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till". Other guests include Emmett Till's cousin Simeon Wright and trial attorney Raymond Brown. |
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The Guardian - A black requiem played to old music - http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,873627,00.html
Gary Younge reports on the funeral in Chicago of Mamie Till Mobley, mother of Emmett Till, and describes the effect of Emmett's murder on the civil rights movement in the United States. |