Emmett Till

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  9/26/2022
  

  Education or Trauma: Debating the Movie Presentation of "Till"

  Despite the violence and brutality of the subject matter, historian Keisha Blain calls the upcoming Emmett Till film essential viewing in a time when it can't be assumed that everyone knows the story. 

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
  9/9/2022
  

  Filmmaker Hopes Emmett Till Movie Will Spur New Evidence and Will to Pursue Justice

  Filmmaker Keith Beauchamp hopes to "shake the trees so that a justice-seeking atmosphere could be formed that will allow people to feel comfortable coming forward with new evidence on the case.”

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  8/31/2022
  

  Emmett Till's Lynching Catalyzed the Reactionary Denunciation of the "Liberal Media"

  by Chris Lamb

  To reactionary Southerners and white supremacists, media accounts of Emmett Till's murder had to be dismissed as "fake news" and countered with their own misinformation. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/22/2022
  

  Till's Accuser's Memoir Shows the Pandora's Box She Opened has Never Closed

  by Peniel E. Joseph

  "What does it say about America that we are still in search of justice for the victim of an almost 70-year-old crime that helped spark the modern civil rights movement?"

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/17/2022
  

  Charles Blow: Don't Shed Tears for Carolyn Bryant Donham

  In a newly-discovered unpublished memoir, the woman who accused Emmett Till of making sexual advances presents a self-serving account of her role in the events that led to his murder. 

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  7/15/2022
  

  Mississippi AG Will Not Reopen Till Lynching Case Despite Discovered Warrant for Carolyn Donham

  The state's top prosecutor said that despite the discovery of the warrant and the publication of Ms. Donham's memoir, the woman at the center of the Till lynching will not be prosecuted. 

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
  6/29/2022
  

  Unserved Warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham's Arrest in Till Lynching Discovered in Box in Courthouse Basement

  The 1955 document demonstrates that the authorities in Leflore County believed that Donham, for whose honor the lynching was allegedly carried out, was present for the teenager's abduction, torture, or murder. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/6/2021
  

  Justice Department Closes Emmett Till Investigation Without Charges

  Historian Timothy Tyson wrote in a 2017 book that witness Carolyn Bryant Donham disavowed her testimony that Till had grabbed her and made suggestive remarks before he was lynched. The DOJ has said that materials given them by Tyson did not corroborate the claim of a recantation. 

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
  9/1/2021
  

  Journalist William Huie Concealed Lynchers In Emmett Till Case And Got Away With It

  The commonly-know story of Emmett Till's lynching has long been distorted because a journalist who reported the accounts of two acquitted killers had written out other conspirators from the story for legal reasons. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/24/2021
  

  ‘He Had a Life Before Death’: Remembering Emmett Till for the Child He Was

  Emmett Till's cousin Ollie Gordon describes Till's personality at what would be his 80th birthday, reminding us that he was a person, and not just a martyr.

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• SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times
  9/1/2020
  

  Emmett Till’s Home, a Launching Pad for the Civil Rights Movement, Deserves Landmark Status

  Landmark status would further honor Emmett and Mamie Till’s tragic but critical role in American history.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  November 4, 2019
  

  White supremacists gathered at Emmett Till’s bulletproof memorial to shoot a video

  White supremacists visited Emmett Till's memorial causing dismay to many.  

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  7/29/19
  

  Due to Repeated Vandalism, Emmett Till Memorial to Be Replaced With Bulletproof Sign

  by Brigit Katz

  Most recently, three University of Mississippi students were suspended from their fraternity after posing in front of the sign with guns.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/9/19
  

  Misery and memory in Glendora, Mississippi: How poverty is reshaping the story of Emmett Till’s murder

  by Dave Tell

  As Till’s story has been passed down through the generations and taken up by a range of memorials, its plot has been shaped by forces like poverty as much as by fidelity to historical fact.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/20/19
  

  Emmett Till's Murder and How America Remembers Its Darkest Moments

  He walked into a store and it changed civil rights. That crumbling store has come to symbolize the struggle to address the nation’s racial violence.

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• 12/2/18
  

  Counterfactual History: Rest in Peace, Emmett Till.

  by Elliott Gorn

  An imaginative account of the life 14 year old Emmett Till never got the chance to live.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  8-5-18
  

  The spot where Emmett Till’s body was found is marked by this sign. People keep shooting it up.

  At the spot marking where Till’s body was pulled from the river, it took just 35 days since installation for a replacement sign to be pierced by gunfire. Again.

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• SOURCE: AP
  7-12-18
  

  Government probing "new information" in Emmett Till slaying

  A 2017 book that revealed lies by a key figure in the Emmett Till case has prompted the U.S government to renew its investigation into the brutal 1955 slaying, a federal official said Thursday.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-30-17
  

  When a memorial to Emmett Till was vandalized, these high school students stepped up

  The group debated about what action to take before settling on repairing the sign with handwritten notes and drawings that both memorialized Till but also did what the sign no longer could do: educate others about what had transpired at that place.

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• SOURCE: The Boston Globe
  7-1-17
  

  Monuments teach us lessons about the toll of hatred

  by Renee Graham

  Someone again vandalized a memorial to Emmett Till. Whoever destroyed that marker wanted to erase history.