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Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black Chicago boy visiting Mississippi in 1955, was kidnapped from his uncle's home in the town of Money and killed after he whistled at a white woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham, a shopkeeper in the town. Three days later, his mutilated body was found in the muddy Tallahatchie River. He had been beaten and shot. His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who died in 2003, held an open-casket funeral in Chicago, and a photograph of Till's disfigured face in Jet Magazine had a powerful effect on public opinion. Roy Bryant, Donham's husband at the time, and his half brother, J.W. Milam, were acquitted of the crime by an all-white jury in 1955. The men later confessed in an intervie...
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black Chicago boy visiting Mississippi in 1955, was kidnapped from his uncle's home in the town of Money and killed after he whistled at a white woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham, a shopkeeper in the town. Three days later, his mutilated body was found in the muddy Tallahatchie River. He had been beaten and shot. His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who died in 2003, held an open-casket funeral in Chicago, and a photograph of Till's disfigured face in Jet Magazine had a powerful effect on public opinion. Roy Bryant, Donham's husband at the time, and his half brother, J.W. Milam, were acquitted of the crime by an all-white jury in 1955. The men later confessed in an interview with Look magazine. Both are dead. The FBI reopened the case in 2004 but decided in 2006 not to press charges. The case was turned over to local prosecutors. In February 2007, a grand jury refused to bring any new charges. The district attorney in rural Leflore County had sought a manslaughter charge against Donham, who was suspected of pointing out Till to her husband to punish the boy for what was then a grave offense in the segregated South.
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In the Mississippi Delta, B.B. is king
Special to The Los Angeles TimesIndianola, Miss. He started out here 60 years ago, singing the blues on a street corner for dimes. Now, less than three blocks from that corner, the legendary B.B. King will soon have his own museum. The B.B. King Museum & Delta Interpretive Center is...Tags: Muddy Waters, Bessie Smith, Civil Rights, Buddy Guy, B.B. King
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On Aug, 28, 1749, German poet, dramatist and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt, Germany. In 1833 Britain banned slavery. In 1955 Emmett Till, an African-American teenager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle's home in...Tags: Charles, Prince of Wales, Tornadoes, Diana, Princess of Wales, Ronald Reagan, Crest Hill
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A song for Emmett
In the loop social studies The event: Cocktails at Club Petterino, next door to the Goodman Theatre, to celebrate world premier week of "The Ballad of Emmett Till" by Chicago author Ifa Bayeza. The players: Goodman board member Rebecca Ford Terry;...Tags: Goodman Theatre
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Congress Theatre wrestles with film set
Tribune staff reporterThe lights are hot, the days are long and Patrick Gleason's bright blue pleather pants are ripped near his crotch. Call it a wardrobe malfunction -- this is not on purpose."Just wait until I start wrestling," jokes Gleason, the star of "Fancypants," an...Tags: Film Festivals, Michael Mann, DePaul University, John Dillinger, Minority Groups
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Thousands of Rosa Parks' personal items to be auctioned
Arlan Ettinger will never forget the response he got the day he took one of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks' hats to a meeting at Harlem's historic Apollo Theater. "It was a fairly plain-looking black hat. And then I said it was Rosa Parks'. And their...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Demonstration, Auction Service
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Graduations Well Under Way; Simsbury Cops Find Pipe Bomb
Graduations are held at Miss Porter's School and Ethel Walker. Avon officials trim their budget. And Simsbury cops find a roasting chicken along roadway with a pipe bomb stuffed inside.
Here is a round-up of some of the news stories from Farmington...Tags: Guerrilla Activity, Massacres, Local Authority, Arthur Miller, Auction Service
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Jackson: Obama's place in movement
The Swampby Rick Pearson The Rev. Jesse Jackson says the anticipated nomination of Sen. Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential candidate represents a crowning achievement for the civil rights movement as well as an "I-told-you-so" moment in the history of...Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, Democratic Party
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People to People: April 12, 2008
The Goodman Theatre is producing up and coming playwright Ifa Bayeza's "The Ballad of Emmett Till" which will begin showing on April 26th and opening night is May 5th. The actors who play Emmett and his mother Mamie Till perform a short scene in our...Tags: Goodman Theatre, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Church leaders defend Wright's style, not words
martin.evans@newsday.comThe fiery oratory of Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor - words that have ensnared the Democratic presidential challenger in the stickiest controversy of his candidacy - drew from rhetorical traditions that are well within the mainstream of black church...Tags: Baptist, Brookville, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., National Government
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Transcript of full Joseph McNeil interview
My name is Joseph McNeil. I am 65 years old and I was born in Wilmington, N.C., 1942.
Why did I become an activist? I guess I've been an activist, if you want to use that term, all my life.
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Non-profit, commercial divisions melt
Tribune theater criticIn theatrical lore, the commercial producer and the non-profit theater company are worlds apart. The former is synonymous with mercurial, cigar-chewing entrepreneurship; the latter is fulfilling a sacred social mission to serve and protect the arts....Tags: Claire Danes, David Mamet, Ian McShane, Tommy Tune, Kathleen Turner
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'60 Minutes' Correspondent Bradley Dies
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