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This undated portrait shows Emmett Louis Till, who was kidnapped, tortured and killed in the Mississippi Delta in August 1955 after witnesses said he whistled at a White woman working in a store. A Mississippi community with an elaborate Confederate monument will unveil a larger-than-life statue of Till on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, decades after White men kidnapped and killed the Black teenager for whistling the White woman. (AP Photo/File)

This undated portrait shows Emmett Louis Till, who was kidnapped, tortured and killed in the Mississippi Delta in August 1955 after witnesses said he whistled at a White woman working in a store. A Mississippi community with an elaborate Confederate monument will unveil a larger-than-life statue of Till on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, decades after White men kidnapped and killed the Black teenager for whistling the White woman. (AP Photo/File)

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