A New Monument to Emmett Till Doesn’t Measure Progress, But It Does Matter
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Photographs of the open casket at Emmett Till’s funeral, a choice his mother insisted on because it would force the world to face what happened to him, showed the 14-year-old boy disfigured from a horrific beating by a group of white vigilantes. They had attacked him based on an unfounded accusation of whistling at a white woman. Circulating widely via Jet magazine (while more mainstream media...