“When people saw, what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before,” said Mamie Till, whose son was brutally murdered in a racially motivated crime. Most people are quite familiar with who Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks and Malcom X are, and how they contributed to the Civil Rights Movement, but few have heard of the story of Emmett Till. This young man's death galvanized activists across the country when the gory images of his body sparked a revolution to fight against…
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