S2 Ep2: The Galvanizing Murder of Emmett Till

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

A fun-loving Chicago teenager convinced his mom to let him visit relatives in Mississippi over the summer of 1955. Three days after his arrival, 14-year-old Emmett Till was viciously murdered. Because his mother insisted that the world see the violence inflicted upon her son, the case made international news and galvanized the civil rights movement in the United States.

"Crimes of the Centuries" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history.

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0:40.8	enable flexibility and automate workflows. Plus, Slack is full of game-changing features,
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1:05.7	Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they earn the label crime of the century.
1:13.8	But the stories that made headlines in decades past are necessarily remembered today.
1:21.6	I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author, and in each episode of this show, I'll examine
1:27.9	a case that's maybe less or known today, but was huge when it happened.
1:34.4	This is crimes of the centuries.
1:49.2	The family gathered in a modest house on a stretch of country road and money Mississippi
1:54.5	had heard rumblings that something bad might be a foot.
1:57.9	There had been ominous warnings from others in the neighborhood that this thing wasn't
2:03.3	over yet.
2:04.3	Today, we would consider the thing they were referencing so stupid.
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