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'''The Death of Emmett Till''' is a song by American musician and Nobel Laureate [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan Bob Dylan], telling about the murder and trial of a 14-year-old African-American young man. Emmett Till was killed by two white men, reportedly after flirting with a white woman on August 28, 1955. The song which is also known as ''The Ballad of Emmett Till'' apparently never appeared on Dylan’s studio albums. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Emmett_Till</ref>
  
 
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''This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man''
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''That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan''
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''But if all of us folks that thinks alike, if we gave all we could give''
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''We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live'' <ref>https://www.insidehook.com/article/music/25-songs-about-racism-that-are-still-sadly-relevant-today</ref>
  
 
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Death of Emmett Till

The Death of Emmett Till is a song by American musician and Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan, telling about the murder and trial of a 14-year-old African-American young man. Emmett Till was killed by two white men, reportedly after flirting with a white woman on August 28, 1955. The song which is also known as The Ballad of Emmett Till apparently never appeared on Dylan’s studio albums. [1]

Bob Dylan

Key Lyrics

This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man

That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan

But if all of us folks that thinks alike, if we gave all we could give

We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live [2]

Black Empowerment

References