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July 12, 2004
 In honor of the NAACP convention in Philadelphia, the National Constitution Center looked back at the case of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American who was killed in Mississippi after whistling at a white woman. An all white jury found his two assailants not guilty, but later sold their story to Look Magazine. Following the award-winning documentary The Murder of Emmett Till and other research, the U.S. Department of Justice reopened the investigation. We heard from Assistant Attorney General Alexander Acosta, who heads the investigation, as well as from National Constitution Center President Richard Stengel, Philadelphia NAACP President Jerome Mondesire and John Herbers, a former New York Times reporter who covered the trial for UPI. The Murder of Emmett Till, produced by Firelight Media for PBS, www.firelightmedia.org, was also screened.
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