Wright Thompson’s new book is about the site of Emmett Till’s murder. “It just haunted me,” he says, “the fact that it was there and that it wasn’t memorialized, that it had been almost completely written out of history.” (Evan France) Wright Thompson’s new nonfiction ...
Till's mother said that, despite the enormous pain it caused her to see her son's dead body on display, she opted for an open-casket funeral in an effort to "let the world see what has happened, because there is no way I could describe this. And I needed somebody to help me tell...
There are still millions of people who are eager to know what happened to Emmett Till on that terrible night in Mississippi almost 50 years ago. (5) Gary Younge, The Guardian (11th May, 2004) The US justice department said yesterday it was reopening the case of Emmett Till, the black...
but we don’t focus enough on Mamie Till. So the key was to do an exhibition that would, yes, tell the story of Emmett but really talk about the impact that this had on the mother, how it transformed her and how through her efforts it transformed...
Emmett's body was shipped to Chicago for burial. The mutilated body was displayed under glass at the Roberts Temple Church of God. As Mamie Till related in an interview shown inThe Murder of Emmett Till, she wanted to "let the people see what I've seen . . . everybody needed to know...
In the book, author Tyson wrote that Donham told him her testimony about Till accosting her wasn’t true. Declassified: Russia’s athlete’s secret[Sponsored] “Nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him,” the book quotes her as saying. ...
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