Why was 14 year old emmett till beaten to death in 1995?

Emmet Till was an African American boy who got beaten to death for flirting with a white woman. The woman's husband and brother murdered him four days after the incident.
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Communicating with the dead was common, it wasn’t seen as bizarre or weird,” explains murch. “it’s hard to imagine that now, we look at that and think, ‘why are you opening the gates of hell? ’