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Explores the murder a black teenager in Mississippi in 1955 that ignited the civil rights movement.
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In August 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley of Chicago sent her only child, 14 year-old Emmett Louis Till, to visit relatives in the Mississippi Delta. Little did she know that only eight days later, Emmett would be abducted from his great-uncle's home, brutally beaten and murdered by one of the oldest Southern taboos: whistling at a white woman in public. The murderers were soon arrested but later acquitted of murder by an all-white, all-male jury. As a result of the new revelations uncovered from this documentary, the U.S. Department of Justice reopened this infamous case on May 10, 2004 - just a few months shy of the 50th Anniversary of Emmett Till's murder. Indictments may come down in early 2006. THINK Film
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