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Sand Rat Expat

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October 22, 2016

Emmett Till memorial sign scarred by bullet holes

Source: CNN

(CNN)The sign marking the site where Emmett Till's body was found is now riddled with bullet holes.

The marker is in rural Tallahatchie County, two hours north of Jackson, Mississippi. CNN affiliate WJTV reported this week that the sign has more than 40 bullet holes in it.

The 14-year-old black teen was killed in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman. The memorial marks the site where his body was discovered in the Tallahatchie River.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/22/us/mississippi-emmett-till-sign-bullets/index.html

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