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fromThe Atlantic
4 days ago

The Power of Private Museums

Belzoni, Mississippi, known as the 'Catfish Capital', was the site of a civil‑rights‑era lynching of Reverend George Lee after he registered Black voters.
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fromAxios
1 month ago
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Emmett Till Interpretive Center acquires Mississippi barn where Till was tortured

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4 months ago
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Emmett Till family re-creates train ride from Chicago to Mississippi to mark 70th anniversary

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fromThe Atlantic
4 months ago

Seeing Emmett Till's Murder Weapon

J.W. Milam's pistol, believed by the FBI to have fired the shot that killed Emmett Till, is now displayed at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.
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fromwww.npr.org
4 months ago

70 years after Emmett Till's murder, Mississippi museum acquires gun used to kill him

Mississippi archives acquired the pistol believed to have been used to lynch Emmett Till, a killing that galvanized the civil rights movement.
fromAxios
1 month ago
History

Emmett Till Interpretive Center acquires Mississippi barn where Till was tortured

fromAxios
4 months ago
Social justice

Emmett Till family re-creates train ride from Chicago to Mississippi to mark 70th anniversary

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fromwww.mercurynews.com
5 months ago

Today in History: August 17, Georgia mob lynches Jewish businessman

On August 17, 1915, a mob in Cobb County, Georgia, lynched Jewish businessman Leo Frank, 31, whose death sentence for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan had been commuted to life imprisonment.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
6 months ago

Family of American citizen killed by Israeli settlers demands US probe

Sayfollah Musallet, a young American citizen, was lynched by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, prompting calls for an investigation and justice.
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