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00:33Emmett was a prankster. Loved jokes.
00:35Liked to make people laugh.
00:37Always wanted to do something to draw attention.
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00:46When he was little,
00:48we that knew the motories of the South,
00:51we made a beeline for the car.
00:53This boy has grossly violated the Southern motories.
00:58When he saw that we were afraid,
01:00then he became afraid.
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01:30Because he whistled, he was killed.
01:33He was shot in the head,
01:35thrown in the Tallahassee River.
01:38We cried.
01:40Our hearts were broken.
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02:02The mother demanded that the casket remain open.
02:06In essence, really ripping the lid off of this
02:10saying, you as a country have to come to grips
02:13with what happened to my son.
02:15And I think that, her courage,
02:18the pain she felt,
02:20but the courage of keeping that casket open
02:23really inspired people to say, enough's enough.
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02:56He lost his life, but a lot of good came.
02:59There was his mother's saying,
03:01I hope you didn't die in vain.
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03:26She said, you tell these stories over and over
03:30until they seem true,
03:33but that part's not true.
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04:03His mother insisted on an open casket.
04:07This was the thing that sent shockwaves across this country,
04:11causing people to rethink what was happening in the South.
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04:19I think the more we learn about what happened to Emmett Till,
04:23it tells us a lot about the criminal justice system,
04:26it tells us a lot about fairness.
04:28It also should give us a path to understand,
04:31here's what we need to do as a country
04:34to make sure these kind of things don't happen.
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