Filmmakers focus on infamous crime in Black Lives Matter era
At least three productions are in the works on the story of the 1955 lynching of black teenager Emmett Till
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SIMEON Wright, nearly 13, a Mississippi sharecropper's son, shared a bed with his 14-year-old cousin Emmett Till on the fateful night of Aug 28, 1955. Till, visiting from Chicago, was taken from the room that night by two white intruders and, in the next few terrible hours, became the victim of one of the most infamous racial crimes in American history, when he was tortured and murdered for supposedly whistling at a white woman.
More than six decades later, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and the string of controversial killings of black men by the police have given new impetus to efforts to film the story of Till, with at least three screen adaptations in the works.
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