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Who were the two men responsible for abducting and murdering Emmett Till?

  • Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam

  • John Smith and James Johnson

  • William Brown and Thomas Jackson

  • George White and Charles Davis

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Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were the two men responsible for abducting and murdering Emmett Till. They were acquitted by an all-white jury, but later admitted to the crime in a 1956 interview with Look magazine.
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