Emmett’s horrifying tale still haunts the US


  • Letters
  • Sunday, 08 May 2005

MANY people outside the United States may not know who Emmett Till is. But what happened to him 50 years ago sent shock waves throughout this country and helped spark the civil rights movement in America. 

Those days may have long been gone, but once in a way stories like that of Emmett’s bring back memories of the dark days of the segregated South.  

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