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Emmett Till: Getting Away With Murder By Jackie Robinson
Emmett Till was born on the 25th of July, 1941. He lived his early life in Argo, Illinois. Argo is about 10mi southwest of Chicago. Living in Chicago, life as an African American wasn’t as bad as life in the Southern states. However, laws and morals of the Northern states weren’t great, either. “Racial violence was relatively rare.” － Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case pg. 27. In fact, when Emmett was 6, Jackie Robinson played his first game in the all-white MLB. Emmett loved the White Sox baseball team. He was noted for being very happy by several friends and family members. Emmett had Polio at the age of 5, whenever the Polio vaccine had not been invented yet. Luckily, he recovered fully except for a slight
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