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Shares the story of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American beaten and lynched in 1955 due to American racism.

Explores new information about the murder of Emmett Till and explores how his death influenced the "Emmett Till generation," black boys and girls Emmett's age who grew up to launch the sit-in campaigns that propelled the civil rights movement into the national spotlight.

In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional. Only weeks later, Rosa Parks thought about young Emmett as she refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Five years later, Black students who called themselves ?the Emmett Till generation? launched sit-in campaigns that turned the struggle for civil rights into a mass movement. Till?s lynching became the most notorious hate crime in American history.

A comprehensive account of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago lynched for a flirtation with a white woman at a country store in the Mississippi Delata.

Analyzes the case of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy from Chicago who was killed in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman; discusses the trial and acquittal of the two men who lynched Till; and explores the social impact of the incident.