Justice Department Reopens Emmett Till Murder Case

The Justice Department recently reopened the 1955 Emmett Till case. (Wikimedia Commons)
(NNPA) – The U.S. Department of Justice has once again reopened the infamous Emmett Till case. The 1955 murder case was a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement and one of the most notorious murders in United States history.
In August 28, 1955, Emmett Till, who was 14, was murdered in the town of Money, Mississippi by Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam after Bryant’s wife Carolyn