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Mar 23, 2020
Airickca Gordon-Taylor (2020), charity leader & Emmett Till's cousin
Airickca Gordon-Taylor was the cousin of Emmett Till, whose 1955 murder helped spark the Civil Rights Movement. Gordon-Taylor was the founder and executive director of the , named in honor of Till’s mother and providing education, enrichment, and empowerment to young people.
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Sep 5, 2017
Simeon Wright (1942–2017), Emmett Till's cousin who witnessed kidnapping
CHICAGO (AP) — Simeon Wright, who was with his cousin Emmett Till when the Chicago boy was kidnapped in 1955 after whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, has died. He was 74.
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Jun 12, 2015
Civil Rights History: Five of Medgar Evers' Achievements
Medgar Evers , a civil rights icon gunned down at age 37, lived a life bookended by segregation. From the institutionalized racism of his childhood to the heartbreaking discrimination he experienced at the hospital on his final day—dying of a bullet wound, he was initially refused treatment because of his race—segregation was a defining part of his life. But in between those bookends, he fought for change.
