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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graham Lee Brewer

US releases Emmett Till investigation records ahead of 70th anniversary of his killing

Emmett Till Cold Case Records - (Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Just days ahead of the 70th anniversary of his killing, the federal government made public thousands of pages of records Friday on the lynching of Emmett Till.

The records in the National Archives, released by the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board, detail how the Justice Department, the FBI, and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights responded to the 1955 killing of 14-year-old Till. The records were released in accordance with the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act of 2018.

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