Posts tagged Emmett Till
Here’s the proof against Carolyn Bryant Donham in the Emmett Till case. Is it enough to convict her?

The secret memoir by the 88-year-old white woman at the center of the Emmett Till case contains new proof she is lying about the night he was killed, said the retired FBI agent who investigated the 1955 murder.

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Justice Department calls it quits on Emmett Till probe. No charges.

The U.S. Department of Justice has shut down its investigation into the Emmett Till slaying, closing the door on possible charges.

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A year after an Instagram photo of Ole Miss frats hoisting guns in front of a bullet-riddled Emmett Till sign went viral, questions remain.

A year has passed since an Instagram photo went viral of Ole Miss fraternity students hoisting guns in front of a bullet-riddled sign for civil rights martyr Emmett Till, and authorities still have not questioned those involved.

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See the photo Emmett Till’s mother wanted you to see — the one that inspired a generation to join the civil rights movement.

Emmett Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, wanted the world to see “what they did to my baby.”

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Wounds of the past still haunt Mississippi

JACKSON, Miss. — Shortly after relocating to Mississippi last summer, I came face-to-face with the state’s racist past and the inescapable reality of its existing racial tensions.

Here I was, standing in my boss’s garage, counting bullet holes in two memorial signs that symbolized one of the darkest chapters in our nation’s history.

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Ole Miss bungled its investigation into Kappa Alpha students who posed with guns in front of shot-up Emmett Till sign.

When the head of the University of Mississippi condemned fraternity members last week for posing with guns in front of a bullet-riddled memorial to the slain 14-year-old civil rights icon Emmett Till, he defended the campus investigation and the decision not to discipline the students.

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Ole Miss Students Face Possible Civil Rights Investigation After Posing With Guns in Front of Emmett Till Memorial

Three University of Mississippi students have been suspended from their fraternity house and face possible investigation by the Department of Justice after posing with guns in front of a bullet-riddled sign honoring slain civil rights icon Emmett Till.

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