True Detective | True Detective November 2017
The savage murder of black teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi has haunted America for 62 years. He was the 14-year-old Chicago boy who in 1955 went on holiday to visit relatives in the south and never came home. His fate was to be abducted, shot and beaten to death by two white racists who subsequently were found not guilty of murder. The shameful episode helped ignite the civil rights era, and tragic Emmett’s name was seared into the collective memory of African-Americans. Now, in an extraordinary development, a key player in the sorry drama, whose testimony protected his killers, has confessed that she lied in court all those years ago. Turn to Revealed: The Lies That Launched A Lynching.
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Below is a selection of articles in True Detective True Detective November 2017.