Justice Department reopens Emmett Till case. His killing in 1955 put a spotlight on racial violence
(LA Times Books)

The investigation into the death of Emmett Till, one of the most notorious slayings of the Jim Crow-era Deep South, has been reopened more than 60 years after the 14-year-old African American boy´s mutilated body was pulled out of Mississippi`s Tallahatchie River. Two white men, Roy Bryant and...