News about the missing boy had, in the early days, run in Black and Southern papers. He was his mother’s only and beloved child. The boy had been handsome, charismatic, a kid who appreciated a good joke. While there, the boy, Emmett Till, had been kidnapped, beaten, mutilated, shot, then dumped in a river, after he allegedly violated one of the many rules of Jim Crow society. In 1955, much of Black America was transfixed by images of a horrible crime: the swollen, disfigured remains of a 14-year-old Chicago boy who had gone to Mississippi to visit family. Emmett Till is shown lying on his bed in 1954 Credit - Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
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