
Legal rights
Emmett Till, JFK, and the Radical Right
- Harper Turner
- May 27, 2022
Emmett Till’s case is getting much-overdue attention lately. Till became one of the first martyrs in America’s 1950s-era Civil Rights movement when he was killed by Radical Right-wing extremists for flirting with a white girl. Till was one of dozens. For twenty years starting in the 1950s, federally mandated integration brought violence against both blacks […]
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