The murder of black teenager Emmett Till
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was brutally murdered in Mississippi, in the USA.
His death was one of the key events that energized the American civil rights movement.
An all-white jury acquitted the two white suspects.
Farhana Haider has been listening through interviews with some of Emmett's family, to tell the story of the young boy who became an icon in the struggle against racism in America.
(Photo: Emmett Till lying on his bed in Chicago, in 1955. Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:32.1 | watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
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| 0:45.7 | Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
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| 0:49.0 | Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:51.2 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
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