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Civil rights museums open free of charge on Emmett Until’s birthday

Jason Wilson Jul 24, 2021

JACKSON, miss. (AP) - Two Mississippi civil rights museums are celebrating Emmett Till's 80th birthday on Sunday by letting people in for free.The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and Museum of Mississippi History in Jackson also offer…

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Emmett Until saga tied to civil rights story in PBS present

Feb 9, 2021

Deacon Arthur L. Miller of St Mary's Church in Simsbury stands in front of the rest of the former Bryant's Grocery in Money, Miss., Where Emmett Till allegedly whistled a white woman in 1955, which led to his lynching.…