CHICAGO (WLS) -- Thursday marked 70 years since the murder Emmett Till.

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John William "J.W." Milam who, alongside Roy Bryant, abducted Till from his great-uncle's home on Aug. 28, 1955. The white men tortured and killed Till after the teenager was accused of whistling at a white woman in a rural Mississippi grocery store.

Till's body was later found in the Tallahatchie River. Bryant and Milam were charged with Till's murder, but they were acquitted by an all-white-male jury.

Mamie Till-Mobley, Till's mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in Chicago, forcing America to confront the realities of racial violence.

Till's murder was a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement. Thousands came to his funeral, and his mother, Mamie

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