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Events on Sunday 28 August 1955 1
1955Murder of Emmett TillLynching of a Black teenager galvanizes the civil rights movementFourteen-year-old Emmett Till was abducted and murdered in Money, Mississippi, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's store. His mother's decision to hold an open-casket funeral exposed the brutality of the killing to a national audience. The all-white jury's acquittal of his killers helped spark the civil rights movement.