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Headline: This Day in History: Emmett Till Is Murdered
Caption: August 28, 1955. The 14-year-old Chicagoan was murdered while visiting family in Money, MS. Unprepared for the level of racism in Mississippi, Till had openly flirted with a white woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham, on a dare from his friends. Four days later, the woman's husband, Roy, and her brother, J.W. Milam, drove to where Emmett was staying and kidnapped him from his family.
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