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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden designated a new national monument Tuesday to memorialize the racist 1950s lynching of Emmett Till, and challenged Americans to confront their dark history or risk repeating the past. "We should know about our country. We should know everything," Biden said at a White House ceremony attended by lawmakers and Till family members, including the last surviving witness to his abduction, prior to torture and murder. The monument honors Till, a 14-year-old Black boy snatched by white men in 1955 after he allegedly whistled at a white shopkeeper's wife in Mis...
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Washington (AFP) - The white woman who accused Emmett Till of flirting with her in 1955, leading to the shocking lynching of the Black teenager that helped inspire the sweeping US civil rights movement, has died, officials said Thursday. Carolyn Bryant Donham died Tuesday at her home in Louisiana, a letter from the local coroner's office sent to AFP said. It did not give a reason for the 88-year-old's death. Till, 14, was visiting relatives in rural Mississippi in the summer of 1955 when he was kidnapped, beaten and shot dead by racist vigilantes after being accused of chatting up Donham at a ...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed into law a bill finally making racist lynchings a federal hate crime, ending more than a century of delays in outlawing the symbol of what he called "pure terror." Anyone convicted under the new law will face up to 30 years in prison, ending a history of impunity over what researchers say were thousands of lynchings -- often unpunished -- between the end of the Civil War in 1865 and 1950. The bill is named after Emmett Till, a 14-year old African American whose brutal murder galvanized the US civil rights movement in the 1950s. Biden ...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Justice Department announced on Monday that it has ended its investigation into the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, an African-American teenager whose brutal slaying galvanized the civil rights movement. Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago, was abducted and murdered in August 1955 while visiting relatives in the southern state of Mississippi. His mutilated body was found three days later in a local river. Till's mother famously insisted that her son's remains be displayed in an open casket to show to the world what had been done to her boy. The Justice Department reopened it...
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