Remembering the Legacy of Emmett Till

06/27/22 • 15 min

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Emmett Louis Till, was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Till
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-biography-mamie-till-mobley/
https://wams.nyhistory.org/growth-and-turmoil/cold-war-beginnings/mamie-till-mobley/
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https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-emmett-till
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Juneteenth is annual holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States, its a mix of June and Nineteenth, Originating in Galveston, Texas, it is now celebrated annually on June 19 throughout the United States, with increasing official recognition. It is commemorated on the anniversary date of the June 19, 1865 announcement of General Order No. 3 by Union Army general Gordon Granger, proclaiming freedom from slavery in Texas.
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African Americans : a concise history
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https://www.nytimes.com/article/juneteenth-day-celebration.html
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/what-is-juneteenth/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Juneteenth
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/juneteenth-holiday-five-myths/2020/06/18/4c19fff8-b0e1-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html
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Lost in the Movement (The Story of Claudette Colvin)

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Claudette Colvin is an pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
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https://rosaparksbiography.org/bio/claudette-colvin/
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/claudette-colvin/
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