EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER

Panel 1: Emmett Till and Justice

• Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr., cousin of Emmett Till

• Pastor Willie Williams, co-chair, Emmett Till Memorial Commission

• Vangela Wade, President and CEO, Mississippi Center for Justice

• Dale Killinger, former FBI Section Chief

• Moderator: Patrick Weems, Executive Director, Emmett Till Memorial Commission

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Panel 2: Emmett Till and Memorialization

• Dr. Marvel Parker, Wife of Rev. Wheeler Parker and Coordinator of efforts to get National Landmark Status for Roberts Temple in Chicago

• Chris Benson, Associate Professor of journalism at Northwestern University and co-author of Mamie Till-Mobley’s autobiography, Death of Innocence (2003)

• Katherine Malone-France, Chief Preservation Officer, National Trust

• Dr. Dave Tell, Professor of Communications and Co-Director of the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Kansas, author of Remembering Emmett Till (2019)

• Moderator: Nikki Buffa, Latham Watkins, LLC

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Panel 3: “Emmett Till was my George Floyd” - The late Rep. John Lewis

• Isabel Spafford, University of Mississippi student organizer

• Maisie Brown, organizer of the Jackson BLM march

• Albert Sykes, Executive Director of the Institute for Democratic Education in America

• Moderator: Von Gordon, Youth Engagement Manager, William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation

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Reading and Conversation with Mississippi Author Kiese Laymon

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