The murder of Emmett Till was a reminder of to the blacks in the North, as well as in the South of the severe segregation being experienced by the blacks. Emmett Till visited relatives near Money, Mississippi in August of 1955. Before he left Chicago his mother, Mamie warned him about how different Mississippi was about race and segregation. In Mississippi over 500 blacks had been lynched since 1882. There were also other racial tensions such as Brown vs. Board of Education and the Ku Klux Klan.
On August 24th Till and Jones went to the Bryant’s grocery store to buy some candy, but before going in Till showed som
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