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Chicago teen Emmett Till was brutally killed in 1955 for whistling at a white woman – an event that helped spur the nation's civil rights movement

Chicago teen Emmett Till was brutally killed in 1955 for whistling at a white woman – an event that helped spur the nation's civil rights movement. Till is now being memorialized on Capitol Hill.
Nov 18, 2014 (02:34)
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