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Podcast: The Criminority Report
Episode: The Lynching of Emmett Louis Till Part 1
Description: This case is another two parter! Both episodes discuss the brutal racially motivated murder of a 14 year old boy. Emmett's murder encouraged African Americans to fight for racial equality.Â
Reference:
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/watch-nbc-chicagos-docuseries-on-emmett-till/3021225/
https://www.ducksters.com/history/civil_war/reconstruction.php
https://www.nps.gov/reer/learn/historyculture/historyculture.htm
https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/jim-crow-laws
https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/brute/homepage.htm
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-biography-mamie-till-mobley/