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How Emmett Till Changed the World

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The brutal lynching of a Black teen in Mississippi helped shape the civil-rights movement and became the first Black Lives Matter case.

Lottie L. Joiner
Lottie L. Joiner
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William Lanier courtesy of the NAACP
Lottie L. Joiner

Lottie L. Joiner

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