US EditionUS releases Emmett Till investigation records ahead of 70th anniversary of his killing
The 6,500-page record includes FBI and NAACP documents, aiming to honor Emmett Till's legacy and support civil rights by revealing new details from the federal investigation.
- Thousands of pages of records have been released in the US detailing the government's response to the 1955 lynching of black teenager Emmett Till.
- Till's lynching and the subsequent activism of his mother Mamie Till-Mobley helped galvanize the civil rights movement in the US.
- In 2022, the US signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law, making lynching a federal hate crime offense.
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Usa newsThousands of pages of Emmett Till lynching investigation published by government
While many of the documents had already been obtained by researchers through open records requests, the newly released records may let researchers "connect the dots" and reach new conclusions about the Till murder, said a board chair of the federal panel that released them.
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