by lindaoppenheim | Apr 18, 2023
The lynching of Emmett Till in 1955 and the courageous decision of his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, to display the mutilated body to the public was one of the events that galvanized the civil rights movement. Benjamin Saulsberry from the Emmett Till Interpretive Center...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 7, 2018 | Events
Four-day pilgrimage to key Civil Rights Movement sites in Mississippi. Trip will include, among other stops, the site where three Civil Rights workers disappeared, Medgar Evers home, the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, the Mississippi Delta where Fannie Lou Hamer...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 7, 2018 | Article, Truth and Reconciliation
“[I]t took 52 years for historical markers to be erected at locations related to the teenager’s death, which galvanized the civil rights movement after the acquittal. And now, at the spot marking where Till’s body was pulled from the river, it took just 35 days...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 24, 2017 | Exhibit, interview, Uncategorized
“When does art cross into appropriation and exploitation? Baruti Kopano, an associate professor at Morgan State University and co-editor of “Soul Thieves: The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture,” weighs in on that...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 27, 2017 | Article, News
Carolyn Bryant disappeared from public view after alleging Till harassed her in a grocery store. Sixty-two years later, it has emerged her story was not true
