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Arrest Warrant Moot for Kidnapping of Emmitt Till

Arrest Warrant Moot for Kidnapping of Emmitt Till

In August 1955, Till traveled from Chicago to visit relatives in Mississippi, where Donham accused him of making improper advances on her at a grocery store. Wheeler Parker, a cousin of Till who was there, has said 14-year-old Till whistled at the woman- an act that flew in the face of Mississippi’s racist social codes of the era.

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