It is worth noting that if Emmett Till had been a Mississip… - Louis Everett Burnham

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It is worth noting that if Emmett Till had been a Mississippi farm boy instead of a Chicago lad on vacation in Mississippi, the world probably would never have known his fate.

Louis Everett Burnham

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Louis Everett Burnham (September 29, 1915 – February 12, 1960) was an African-American civil rights activist and journalist.

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Alternative Names: Louis E. Burnham • Louis Burnham

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The forward surge of the Negro people is the most distinctive and progressive feature of Southern politics.

From one end of the South to the other law and order have broken down. A public climate has been created in which a Negro’s life is worth no more than a White man’s whim.

Much of what Negroes fight for today is not to gain new ground but to restore positions once dearly won and foully taken away.

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