What Is The Cause Of Emmett Till's Death?

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The next day Moses wright went to the Money police station and in less than forty eight hours the two men were arrested for the kidnapping of Emmett Till and being held without bond (Robson, The Murder of Emmett Till). According to “The Lynching of Emmett Till” by Christopher Metress, seventeen year old Robert Hodges was fishing and found Emmett’s body in the Tallahatchie river (Metress). On August 31st, 1955 Emmett Louis Till’s body was found brutally beaten, tied with barbed wire around the neck to a seventy pound cotton gin, and a gunshot wound to the head (Robson, The Murder of Emmett Till). Moses Wright was called to identify the body. Moses Wright could only identify that the body was Emmett Till, only by the ring on his finger that his
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