Today is Wednesday, August 28, 2019.

On this day in 1955, a 14-year-old black boy was abducted from his bed by two white men, beaten and

murdered.

The teenager's brutal lynching was widely publicized and brought new life to the civil rights movement,

galvanizing the Emmett Till generation.

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I'm Vanessa Richardson, and today marks the anniversary of the brutal lynching of

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