‘That Didn’t Happen’: Emmett Till’s Family Is Not Surprised The Justice Department Is Closing Case of Teen Lynched In 1955, But They’d At Least Hoped for ‘An Apology’
The United States Justice Department has officially closed a three-year investigation into the death of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy savagely murdered in Mississippi in 1955. Officials were unable to prove that one of the witnesses, pivotal to the case, lied in her testimony. Author, historian and college professor Timothy B. Tyson, in his book…
