Emmett Louis Till

 

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Section of Jet magazine’s September 15, 1955 edition. Online, via Google Books and Jet magazine. Copyright, Jet magazine, all rights reserved. Provided here as fair use for educational purposes.

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ARTICLES 

 

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THE MURDER OF EMMETT TILL | ARTICLE

The Legacy of the Lynching of Emmett Till

Dispelling myths to learn how the Black response to racist murder transformed America

August 29, 2020, |   Timothy B. Tyson

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/legacy-lynching-emmett-till/

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THE MURDER OF EMMETT TILL | ARTICLE

Mamie Till Mobley

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-biography-mamie-till-mobley/

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THE MURDER OF EMMETT TILL | ARTICLE

Killers’ Confession

Open the pages of the January 1956 Look magazine to read the killers’ confession.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/till-killers-confession/

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THE MURDER OF EMMETT TILL | ARTICLE

The Trial of J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant

When the murder trial of Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam opened in Sumner, Mississippi, on a steamy September morning in 1955, few realized the town would be forever linked to the brutal slaying of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-trial-jw-milam-and-roy-bryant/

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THE MURDER OF EMMETT TILL | ARTICLE

Getting Away with Murder

Roy and Carolyn Bryant and J. W. Milam will always be linked to the 1955 murder of Emmett Till. In the minds of many, they live in history as the trio that got away with murder.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-biography-roy-carolyn-bryant-and-jw-milam/

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THE MURDER OF EMMETT TILL | ARTICLE

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-biography-sheriff-clarence-strider/ 

 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/emmett-tills-open-casket-funeral-reignited-the-civil-rights-movement-180956483/

https://www.distractify.com/p/what-happened-to-carolyn-bryant

https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM67254

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/emmett-till-accuser-carolyn-bryant-donham-arrest-warrant-found-1955-kidnapping/#app 

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2018/09/13/what-happened-key-figures-emmett-till-case/1275626002/  

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/eleanor-race/

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/9/9/22661228/emmett-till-burial-burr-oak-cemetery

https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/zlup/Historic_Preservation/Publications/Emmett_Till_and_Mamie_Till-Mobley_House_report.pdf

https://alexusrenee.com/remembering-a-long-list-of-black-people-murdered-by-white-police-white-civilians-blacklivesmatter/ 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/history-of-lynching-violent-deaths-reflect-brutal-american-legacy 

https://www.msdeltaheritage.com/blog/2017/5/10/a-special-visit-to-the-national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture-and-i-cried-

https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/plaque-unveiled-at-emmett-tills-home-as-group-works-to-repair-restore-it/

https://wgntv.com/news/house-makes-lynching-a-federal-crime-65-years-after-murder-of-emmett-till/?ipid=promo-link-block2

https://www.pressreader.com/usa/chicago-sun-times/20200827/281500753634800

https://thegrio.com/2022/07/08/emmett-till-supporters-searching-for-his-accuser/?fbclid=IwAR04IZ9-q5_aGt4QYJiZ4bRylo0wNUc38-iB6eJE9xe4t5QFJ-u_fWZgEK8 

https://www.ranker.com/list/emmett-till-civil-rights-movement/genevieve-carlton?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=historypost&pgid=642850749204637&utm_campaign=emmett-till-civil-rights-movement&fbclid=IwAR3vqvkb8O88AtQUNb8PESaG823ShtX5MuYMkPJIf9ns1-RrqxHaJllMjKU

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/books/review/blood-of-emmett-till-timothy-b-tyson.html

https://playbill.com/article/emmett-till-a-new-american-opera-to-premiere-at-john-jay-college

https://www.washingtonpost.com/music/2022/03/22/emmett-till-opera-protest/

https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2022/03/23/1088169711/a-new-opera-about-emmett-till-is-criticized-for-being-written-by-a-white-woman

https://www.indianagazette.com/opinion/blow-shed-no-tears-for-carolyn-bryant-donham/article_9fc9e847-cd6a-5499-8299-5a2f8b0bb302.html

https://www.salon.com/2022/03/12/emmett-tills-family-petitioning-for-charge/ 

https://www.bet.com/article/r43pj6/emmett-till-accuser-carolyn-bryant-donham-seen-first-time-20-years?cid=BET__FBPAGE___7350804915&linkId=175733907&fbclid=IwAR0FCou5tt_y0a_v59CkdfdQQSdzk5gFikIGqt_JZPUSZ5sBEkkNxJ4TM2c

https://en.12up.com/view/?id=rod-serling-facts-12u&src=facebook&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=12u_a_us_sofia_12up23_101780_rod-serling-facts_all_conv-tv40_conv_dynamic_both_18p_i-0_cost-0.5_2ndheadline&utm_medium=23850693948860146&fbclid=IwAR3do6YgQU7pjEVFangN4svDJ25XOptRP–WXiNdewNrXPZCI2GnQQx1wtc&page=52

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interactive/unresolved/cases/emmett-till

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/mississippi-city-greenwood-unveil-emmett-till-memorial-statue/story?id=91859237&fbclid=IwAR2EFWK7MiXZoD1-uyXYZ2GtwGCEKjy_JyjuenrsLKp6m5e4XV8mVn-xqeo

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/12/1162677900/emmett-till-wheeler-parker?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&fbclid=IwAR1mNj5bUCYvqlGZ0idzrzgni7g-HnxTroYGk-4BSOOfkPew_yM1P5KDhEE

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/us/carolyn-bryant-donham-dead.html 

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/barn-emmett-till-murder/619493/ 

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/12/shonda-rhimes-emmett-till-barn-memorial/676887/

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The “Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See” exhibition is at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center 

The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center

The “Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See” exhibition –

DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center 

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ARCHIVIST, EDUCATOR, HISTORIAN, and ARTiST
Dale Ricardo Shields is a 2017 winner of The Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award®, 2017 and 2015 Tony® award nominee for the Excellence in Theatre Education Award, the 2017 AUDELCO/"VIV" Special Achievement Award, 2020, 2021, and 2022 ENCORE AWARD / The Actors Fund and winner of the 2022.

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He is the 2021 winner of the Paul Robeson Award, presented (jointly) by the Actors Equity Association and the Actors Equity Foundation.

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His extensive professional credits as a Director, Stage manager, and Actor (Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and Regional) As an actor he has appeared on Saturday Night Live, Another World, Guiding Light, The Cosby Show, and the ITV television series "Special Needs" and commercials and film.

Professor Shields is a member of the Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and the American Guild of Musical Artists performance unions and an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

He began his artistic academic career in New York City at Playwrights Horizon, The South Bronx Action Theatre, and Mind Builders, and then was invited to join the teaching staff at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre (New York Shakespeare Festival). He represented the United States for Theatre Young Audiences at the ASSITEJ Theatre Festival in London, England.

He has been a Professor and Visiting Artist at Ohio University, The College of Wooster, Denison University, Macalester College, Randolph- Macon College, Susquehanna University, and SUNY Potsdam.

He holds B.F.A and M.F.A, Degrees from Ohio University.

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