Group reservations for tours scheduled with ETIC will be unavailable from December 22 - January 1 for the holidays. Sites of the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will remain open except for Christmas and New Year's Day.
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Read our annual impact report here to see what your support helped us accomplish in 2024.
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Our work was recently featured on CBS Sunday Morning.​ See the segment with ETIC Board Chair
Rev. Willie Williams and others discussing efforts to commemorate Emmett Till.
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RACIAL RECONCILIATION BEGINS BY TELLING THE TRUTH
2024 Impact Report
You make the difference.
Thanks to your support last year, President Biden signed an executive order designating the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument. This milestone represented years of effort among a coalition of partners across the country. While we at the Emmett Till Interpretive Center are proud of that achievement, the work continues.
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Here’s a sampling of what your contributions helped ETIC accomplish in 2024:
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Wright Thompson's The Barn
Wright Thompson's The Barn, a New York Times best-seller, provides a deep dive on our organization as he follows our community and staff over the past three years.
Delta Film Academy
Hosted the fourth annual Mississippi Delta Film Academy to empower students to tell their own stories by learning about filmmaking.
Emmett Till
Memory Project
Launched a new iteration of the Emmett Till Memory Project, a website providing a self-guided tour of sites connected to Emmett’s legacy.
Let the World See
Traveling Exhibit
Continued the tour of the traveling exhibit, Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See, which won an award from the American Association for State and Local History!
Photo courtesy of the Northwest African American Museum
Professional Presentations
Presented at the Smithsonian’s conference gathering people committed to preserving Emmett’s memory. The conference accompanied the exhibit, Reckoning with Remembrance: History, Injustice, and the Murder of Emmett Till, featuring our bullet-riddled river site sign.
Community Engagement
Participated in over thirty community events, including a book drive to provide books for local students.
Annual Memorial Service
Held our third annual memorial service with nearly 250 attendees at the barn where Emmett was beaten and murdered.
National Park Partnership
Continued to support the National Park Service, giving tours of Till sites and completing installation of a permanent copy of the Let the World See exhibit in the Monument’s Visitor Center.
Coverage of our work this year appeared in NPR, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Ebony, National Park Foundation, Mississippi Free Press, and The Delta News, among other places.
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Next year marks the 70th anniversary of Emmett’s kidnapping and murder. While we have plans in mind, what we accomplish next will be because of you and your support.
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We hope you will join us in making 2025 a year of remembrance.
