But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.

Martina Boone
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Emmett Louis Till was a 14 year old boy that lived with his family in Money, Mississippi. He was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in 1955. His crime was the fact he had been dating a white woman who lived with her family in Chicago. Till's murderers were acquitted of his murder because they were not considered to be responsible for the crime.

Source: Compulsion

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