Emmett Louis Till by Dale Ricardo Shields Emmett Louis Till, (born July 25, 1941, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died August 28, 1955, Money, Mississippi), African American teenager whose murder catalyzed the emerging civil rights movement. Emmett Till. born July 25, 1941. Chicago, Illinois. died August 28, 1955 Part I: The Unfortunate Trip On the morning of August …
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The Scottsboro Boys
The Scottsboro Trials Live On Written by Kimble Marshall < When: March 25, 1931 through October 1976 Info on time period: 1929 – 1939- after the Stock the Market Crash of 1929, The Great Depression – “The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II” (“The Great Depression”) …