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Bush Signs Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act

HeadlineOct 09, 2008

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.

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