Emmett Till
Before 14-year-old Emmett Till left Chicago to spend the summer of 1955 with relatives near Money, Mississippi, his mother, Mamie Till Bradley, tried to instruct him on how to act around Southern whites. After his gruesome murder for speaking to a white woman, the courage she displayed in forcing the country to face what had been done to her son made the case of Emmett Till a watershed moment in the hideous history of lynching. 
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