31 March 2007

Better late than never?

Over fifty years ago fourteen year old Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman. On Thursday officials final released the results of his autopsy. He had been shot in the head and his wrists, skull and legs were fractured. Two white men were charged with the crime but found innocent by an all white jury. Both men, now dead, subsequently confessed to the crime in an interview in 1956 with Look magazine.

Those who have forgotten, along with those who are too young, may think of this as a primer.

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