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The Ballads of Emmett Till (BBC World Service)

Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy, was put on the train from Chicago by his mother Mamie in August 1955. She got his mutilated corpse back. Emmett had been beaten, shot and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for supposedly whistling at a white woman. His killers would forever escape justice. Taken up by the mothers and fathers of those killed in the Black Lives Matter movement, this story is the subject of new documentaries, a trio of forthcoming Hollywood films and a new FBI investigation as the search for justice continues. His coffin lies at the heart of Washington's new museum of African American history – a secular shrine and symbol of the enduring pain of America's racism. Maria Margaronis travels through landscape and memory across Mississippi and Chicago to reveal the many ways Till’s story has been told and retold.

It's about Time; I recall it from first news at the time--about par for the dis US: 65 years, ever to Face It.
(Some as young as Eight)--were always good for an entertaining hoe-down in the Lands of cotton and pellagra.