Items on display in the downtown libraryīut this part of American history is all too often skipped in high schools. Ripples of that horror continue as one learns (or recalls) that the men who later confessed to the murder had been acquitted after only an hour of deliberation. Important life lessons are often uncomfortable. The photographic evidence of what people are capable of doing to one another should provoke a sense of horror in anyone who looks upon it. How, in a country that prides itself on freedom and sanctity of life, could this have been possible? The image is one that should elicit a strong response. Mamie Till, his mother, insisted on an open casket funeral so the world would have to be witness to the violence that had been done to the fourteen-year-old.
The images of Emmett Till’s unrecognizable, horribly brutalized body have not been locked out of public view since his murder in 1955.
One part of the extension display on the third floor of the downtown library
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