Biden Set to Establish 3 Sites as Monuments to Civil Rights Icon Emmett Till

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In the year 1955 the Chicago native was 14-years-old and while he was visiting family in the southern state of Mississippi he was accused of whistling at a white woman. He was then abducted, tortured and eventually lynched in what can only be described as a heinous and horrific murder. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.