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Why did emmett till go to mississippi?

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Emmett Louis Till went to Mississippi to visit family

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Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store in 1955, he was accused of flirting with or whistling at the 21-year old woman in her grocery store, at the time, it was forbidden for white man to have any association with white woman.

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