Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago, where racism wasn't widely accepted as it was in Mississippi. In 1955 while visiting family in Money, Mississippi he was brutally murdered by two white men for whistling at one of their wives who was white. In the middle of the night the two men sneaked into Till's uncles barn and beat Till so bad he was unrecognizable. The two men were found not guilty and many people claimed that Tills mother dug up a buried body to make them look guilty. Now this reminds me a lot of the Kendrick Johnson case because nothing has still been done to justify his death. He too was beaten beyond recognition and authorities claim that it was from suffocation in the wrestling mat he was found in. I just want to hear some of your guys opinion on both of these cases.
Emmett Till
http://www.biography.com/people/emmett-till-507515
Kendrick Johnson
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/19/us/kendrick-johnson-death-probe-georgia/
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