Remembering Emmett Till 70 years later

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) – Tonight, we’re looking back at history — really disturbing history.

14-year-old Emmett Till from Chicago was abducted, beaten and lynched in 1955, while visiting family in Mississippi. The murder happened after Till allegedly whistled to a white woman inside of a grocery store.

His killers got off at the time in a relatively quick trial and later admitted to killing him…

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