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... What does the murder of Emmet Till and the subsequent trial of his murderers tell us about American society in the 1950's The murder of Emmet Till happened on Saturday 27th August 1955. Emmet Till was born in Chicago on July 25th 1941; this means that he was 14 years old. Emmet Till was sent by his mother to visit relatives in Mississippi, in the south of America. At this time there was racial prejudice in the North, but mostly black and white people were treated equally. The South of America was completely different. In the south the "Jim Crow" laws were in place. These laws made it legal for black people to be completely separated from the white people. Black people were not allowed to sit on the same benches, or eat in the same restaurants as white people. As Emmet Till was brought up in the less racist north, he
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