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Emmett Till-inspired art installation marks groundbreaking on work to restore his former Woodlawn home The annual ice cream social to celebrate Emmett Till’s birthday also marked the opening of ...
This July, Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley are commemorated with national monuments, landmarks, and art at various sites across the U.S.
Next, view the following video clip of Emmett Till's cousin Reverend Wheeler Parker talking about what life was like for the family in the Mississippi Delta in the 1950s.
A traveling exhibit about Emmett Till has been on display at the Spencer Museum of Art since February.
Displays that are part of the “Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See” exhibit at the KU Spencer Museum of Art are pictured on April 24, 2024.
The "Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See" exhibition serves as a present-day reminder of what remains to be done around racial justice.
An exhibit on the impact of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till — a 14-year old Black boy who was killed in Mississippi and whose murderers escaped conviction — opens Friday at a KU museum. The ...
Wright Thompson's new nonfiction book, 'The Barn,' examines the murder of Emmett Till from multiple perspectives – cultural, geographical and personal.
The image, in his casket, of the murdered Emmett Till, the Black 14-year-old lynched in 1955 Mississippi after reportedly wolf-whistling at a White woman, Carolyn Bryant, is said to have added ...
The story of the 14-year-old Black boy who was lynched in Mississippi became widely known because his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, asked a press photographer to document Emmett's funeral.
Emmett Till-inspired art installation marks start of work to restore his former Chicago home Till, the Black Chicago youth whose lynching in 1955 at age 14 in Mississippi helped launch the civil ...
As the first-ever feature-length retelling of the lynching of Emmett Till goes into wide release, so does an art campaign meant to honor the power of images like those of his open casket that were ...