President Bush has signed the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act. The law will give the Justice Department $10 million a year to examine unsolved murders from the civil rights era. The bill is named after Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old African American teenager who was beaten and killed in 1955 in Mississippi after he reportedly “wolf-whistled” at a white woman.
Bush Signs Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act
HeadlineOct 09, 2008