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flag U.S. releases documents on 1955 Emmett Till lynching, marking 70th anniversary of his death.

flag The U.S. government has released thousands of records about the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old who was falsely accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. flag The documents, released before the 70th anniversary of his death, show how the Justice Department, FBI, and Civil Rights Commission responded to his murder. flag Till's killing sparked the Civil Rights Movement, and in 2022, President Biden signed a bill making lynching a federal hate crime. flag The records, including case files and correspondences, are now public under the 2018 Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act.

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