WASHINGTON - The federal government has made public thousands of pages of records on the lynching of Emmett Till Just days ahead of the 70th anniversary of his killing.

The records in the National Archives, released by the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board, were released Friday.

Emmett Till investigation records released

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The records detail how the Justice Department, the FBI, and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights responded to the 1955 killing of 14-year-old Till.

The records were released in accordance with the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act of 2018.

What they're saying:

"This month marks 70 years since this tragic, watershed moment in American history. Our thoughts are with the Till family." the National Archives and Records Administration s

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