The mood was dark when FBI oficals dug up the body of Emmett Till. The fourteen year old was visiting Mississippi in the year 1955. Emmett Till was kidnapped, beaten, shot and dumped into the river. As soon as the story broke out nationally, black leaders wanted the Justice Department and the FBI to take action. To demand this was the right thing to do because White Southern sheriffs to arrest Whites suspected of racial murders. But in rare cases were whites arrested, all white-juries refused to convict them. In the trial the two men that killed Till were released from the trial.
This was an unfair trial. A lot of African-Americans were treated unfairly.
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