Emmett Till

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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.

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• 3-12-17
  

  Why Did She Lie about Emmett Till?

  by Anders Walker

  The curious case of Carolyn Bryant.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  1-31-17
  

  CBS interviews historian who got the truth about the murder of Emmett Till

  Duke’s Timothy Tyson says the woman who claimed that the black youth had assaulted her broke her silence  –  and recanted.

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• 2-5-17
  

  How Is Emmett Till Remembered?

  by Dave Tell and Patrick Weems

  That depends on whose story gets told.

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  1-26-17
  

  Woman at the Center of the Emmett Till Case Recants Her Claim that Led to His Death

  With a renewed cultural interest in the 1955 murder that catalyzed the 20th century civil rights movement, an interview with the author of a new book who tracked down the long-hidden woman at its center.

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• SOURCE: NYDailyNews
  10-19-16
  

  Emmett Till memorial sign is riddled with bullet holes and has been repeatedly vandalized

  The memorial sign has been routinely vandalized since it went up in 2007.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8-24-15
  

  The Creation of an Emmett Till Archive

  Now, 60 years after the tragedy, Florida State University is creating an Emmett Till Archive.

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• SOURCE: Variety
  5-15-15
  

  Chaz Ebert Developing Emmett Till Movie

  Shatterglass Films and Chaz Ebert are developing an Emmett Till movie based on the book “Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America.”