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alphafemale

(18,497 posts) Sun Apr 1, 2012, 01:25 PM Apr 2012

I have to ask. Of Older DU'rs. When Emmett Till was murdered... [View all]

Did the entire world notice....like this?

We all know his name now. And that may have been something that kicked some activism into being.

But outside of Jet.

Was that story known?

Then? At the time it occurred?

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I have to ask. Of Older DU'rs. When Emmett Till was murdered... [View all] alphafemale Apr 2012 OP

he was killed in 1955, well before I was born... hlthe2b Apr 2012 #1

I was but a wee crumb-snatcher when that happened Cirque du So-What Apr 2012 #2

PBS Timeline teach1st Apr 2012 #3

I was 10 years old at the time. I remember being aware of it, MineralMan Apr 2012 #4

the world was still segretated the media wasn't like we have now demtenjeep Apr 2012 #5

yes Justpat Apr 2012 #6

I was living in Mississippi and I clearly remember that it caused a massive change in attitudes in ladjf Apr 2012 #7

Yeah that Missisippi murder of those three young men yanked people at the short hairs. alphafemale Apr 2012 #12

I was about 12 and lived in Chicago jehop61 Apr 2012 #8

We knew about it in Upstate New York. Mac1949 Apr 2012 #9

I was 14 and we lived beyond the reach of TV signals tularetom Apr 2012 #10

I was only 6 HarveyDarkey Apr 2012 #11

I was about 13 then and I don't think it was as well known but only because of the media access. jwirr Apr 2012 #13

If it was in '55 I was only 4 years old........ socialist_n_TN Apr 2012 #14

I was about 10 years old goclark Apr 2012 #15

He was such a strikingly beautiful child. alphafemale Apr 2012 #17

Clifford Glover was another of many. rug Apr 2012 #16

JUST SAYING Mr Dixon Apr 2012 #18