JAN WHITE: Planned Parenthood should call him Emmett

Sixty years ago (Aug. 29, 1955) Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American from Chicago, was visiting family in Mississippi when he was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier.

There were no witnesses to the woman’s claim that he made lewd advances to her in her store; but that did not stop the woman’s husband and his brother-in-law from going to the home of Mose Wright, Till’s great uncle where Till was visiting.  Despite pleas from Wright, they forced Till into their car. Till was severely beaten, shot in the head, and his body thrown into the Tallahatchie River.

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