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Coverage dated August 27, 2025

70 years after Emmett Till's murder, Mississippi museum acquires gun used to kill him

Headline from Delaware Public Media

It's been 70 years since Emmett Till, a Black teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, was killed by white men because he whistled at a white woman. Now the gun used in his death is in a museum.

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  1. Delaware Public Media

    70 years after Emmett Till's murder, Mississippi museum acquires gun used to kill him (opens Delaware Public Media)

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    It's been 70 years since Emmett Till, a Black teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, was killed by white men because he whistled at a white woman. Now the gun used in his death is in a museum.

  2. The Boston Globe

    Gun used in Emmett Till’s lynching is displayed in a museum 70 years after his murder (opens The Boston Globe)

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    The Boston Globe's feed description

    The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum has unveiled the pistol used in Emmett Till’s 1955 lynching on the 70th anniversary of his murder.

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