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Article: Telling Emmett Till's story.
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Filmmaker Keith A. Beauchamp grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. When he was ten, he found a copy of Jet magazine in his parents' study and saw a photograph of Emmett Till. "It just shocked me," says Beauchamp. "Emmett was fourteen years old, and it was like a mirror image of myself--this young boy who was murdered for whistling. I've always had that vision of Emmett Till's corpse etched in my head."
Beauchamp, director of the recently released documentary The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, took it upon himself to solve the crime. Four decades after the 1955 murder, he began interviewing Till's relatives and other witnesses. After finding evidence that ...