More than 6,500 pages of the Emmett Till murder investigation were published online Friday, days before the 70th anniversary of the 14-year-old Chicago boy’s death.

The public for the first time can view documents detailing the federal government’s response to the 1955 lynching that helped spark the civil rights movement.

The “almost totally unredacted” files from the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice were published on the National Archives website , said Hank Klibanoff, Emory University professor and co-chair of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board, which oversaw the document release.

While many of the documents had already been obtained by researchers through open records requests, the new records may let researchers “connect the dots” and make new conclusions about the Ti

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