Lawsuit seeks white woman's arrest in Emmett Till kidnapping

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(AP) — A relative of Emmett Till is suing to try to make a Mississippi sheriff serve a 1955 arrest warrant on a white woman in the kidnapping that led to the Black teenager’s brutal lynching. The torture and killing of Till in the Mississippi Delta became a catalyst for the civil rights movement after his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in Chicago and Jet magazine published photos of his mutilated body. Justice Department announced in December 2021 that it had ended its latest investigation into the lynching of Till, without bringing charges against anyone

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