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Banks said he killed his children because he felt they would be tormented by the cruelty of racial views against mixed-race children. Since his conviction Banks has tried to kill himself four times and has gone on hunger strikes that required him to be force-fed.
(25 September 1982)

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		Black Emmett Louis Till aka Bobo 25 July 1941 (+) is born in Chicago, United States. 28 August 1955 (-) lynched for offending white 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant in her family's grocery store four days before in Money, United States.
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