Category: Trains

• History Daily: August 28

  EMMETT TILL IS MURDERED Image: Emmett Till (Wikimedia Commons) On August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American boy from Chicago, is viciously murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. His murderers—the white woman’s husband and his brother—made Emmett carry a 75-pound cotton gin…

  August 28, 2023

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  1800s, 1930s, 1950s, Adolf Hitler, Civil Rights Movement, Emmett Till, History Daily, Lynching, Poland, Trains, World War II