Who Killed Emmett Till?

January 16, 2003 | This article appeared in the February 3, 2003 edition of The Nation.

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The summer before 14-year-old Trent Lott entered all-white Pascagoula
High School in Mississippi, a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago named
Emmett Till convinced his mother to let him go down

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Rebecca Segall

Rebecca Segall, former senior editor at Psychology Today, is now freelancing for publications including The Village...

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