Justice Dept. Reopens Probe Into 63-Year-Old Murder Of Emmett Till

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By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN
(CNN) — The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, barbarous even in an era in which blacks in the South were subjected to untold viciousness, has been reopened, according to a US Justice Department report to Congress.
The 1955 slaying was listed in a March report among “activities” the department was pursuing under the 2007 unsolved civil rights crime act that bears Emmett’s name. The act paves the way for the d