Emmett Till Exhibit
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Posted By: How May I Help You NC on May 04, 2016 Holly Springs, Miss- Rust College announces that the Emmett Till Exhibit will be available and open to the public, downstairs in the Leontyne Price Library until May 12, for its Sesquicentennial Celebration. The traveling exhibit highlights the Mississippi’s history of Emmett Till, a 14 year African American male who was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, on August 24, 1955, when he reportedly flirted with a white cashier at a grocery store. Four days later, two white men kidnapped Till, beat him and shot him in the head. The men were tried for murder, but an all-white, male jury acquitted them. Till's murder and open casket funeral galvanized the emerging Civil Rights Movement. According to Delta State University, the late Dr. Henry Outlaw, former employee with Delta State’s Delta Center for Culture and Learning, obtained grant support through the Mississippi Humanities Council to collect a series of oral histories in 2005, 50 years after murder. In the process, he set in motion a series of events that brought Till and his story back to the center stage for a new generation to discover. In 2007, Emily Jones archivist at Delta State used the interviews and documents uncovered through Outlaw’s research to create the exhibit, which first debuted in Tupelo, Miss. Since 2007, the exhibit has visited countless cities and towns across the nation and has been viewed by thousands of schools, children and community members. For more information about Rust College, call 662-252-8000 or visit www.rustcollege.edu. If you enjoyed this article, Join HBCU CONNECT today for similar content and opportunities via email! |
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