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Emmett Till — Part 1
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B. Sequence of Events:
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bc 1. Saturday/Sunday - August 20-21, 1955: Emmett Till, Mose Wright and] |
{_ leparted Chicago, Illinois via train and arrived in Mississippi. Till and| ere
scheduled to return to Chicago two weeks later. Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, had given Till
his deceased father’s ring prior to his leaving Chicago. °% >!
Zz. Wednesday - August 24, 1955;
Twilight Preceding Da
PSunrise 5:29am. Moonrise
End Civil Twilight ; 7:03 p.m Moonrise on the
Following Day
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| High Temperature | 92degrees |
| Low Temperature | Tidegrees |
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Meteorological. Light and Weather Data
All moon and iight data used throughout this report was obtained from the United States Naval Observatory,
Astronomical Applications Department. Weather data used throughout this report was obtained from the Greenwood
Commonwealth newspaper. ©
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a. August 24, 1955 - 8:00 p.m. - Money, Mississippi: Till, his cousins, and
members of the Wright family traveled:to Money, Mississippi and visited Bryant's Grocery & Meat
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[| Maurice Wright (deceased) and Curtis Jones (deceased). Also at the store that evening
was|____and [tte 7} Upon arriving several black
persons were already present at the store on the front porch, playing checkers. Till entered the store
* Death of Innocence, The Story of The Hate Crime That Changed America, Maime Till-Mobley and Christopher
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