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August 28th

2 events recorded on The Ledger.

  1. 1955
    The Record

    Emmett Till murdered in Money, Mississippi

    Fourteen-year-old Emmett Louis Till, visiting from Chicago, is taken from his great-uncle's home by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, beaten, shot, and thrown into the Tallahatchie River. His mother Mamie Till-Mobley opens the casket for the Chicago funeral. Jet magazine publishes the photographs.

  2. 1963
    Context

    March on Washington; I Have a Dream

    More than 250,000 people gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his I Have a Dream speech. Roy Wilkins announces from the podium that W.E.B. Du Bois has died in Accra the day before.

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