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Emmett Till

New book examines the killing of Emmett Till

Every day just outside Drew, Mississippi, people drive by a barn with no idea what they are passing. It was in that barn where 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally beaten and killed in 1955. Till's lynching sparked the civil rights movement. Wright Thompson's new book "The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi" examines how an ordinary building many see conceals an extraordinary evil no one knows. Jim Axelrod has more.

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Emmett Till monument to include 3 sites

President Biden is signing a proclamation Tuesday establishing a national monument for Emmett Till and his mother. The announcement comes on what would have been Till's 82nd birthday. This land in Mississippi, known as Graball Landing, is where Till's brutally beaten body was found in 1955. It will soon be one of three sites for the monument. Elise Preston traveled to those locations and spoke to the people who fought for years to make this a reality.

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