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October 9, 2008

Bush Signs Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act
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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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