Fan CastingThe Boy Who Whistled
by Theodore Melfi
Story added by wbb on March 2, 2018
The story of Emmett Till. A 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States. read more
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