The Justice Department has reopened the 1955 murder case of Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old who was brutally beaten, shot and left for dead in a river in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has reopened the racist killing of Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old from Chicago who was visiting family in Mississippi in 1955, NPR reports. The department says it has received “new information” in the case but did not provide specifics. A new book on the killing, The Blood of Emmett Till, combined…
The Justice Department is considering reopening its investigation into the 1955 killing of Emmett Till.
Civil rights activists and others are calling for the federal government to reopen its investigation of the killing of Emmett Till, a black teenager who was killed in 1955 for allegedly flirting with a white woman.
