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Source: NPR "News & Notes with Ed Gordon"

Roundup

8-29-05

Getting the news of Emmett Till's death

Commentator Clarence Page recalls how he learned the news of Emmett Till's death when he was just a boy. Page is a Washington-based syndicated columnist for the "Chicago Tribune."

Read entire article at NPR "News & Notes with Ed Gordon"