Summit on the 65th Anniversary of the Murder of Emmett Till
To mark the 65th anniversary of Till's murder, the Emmett Till Interpretive Center hosted an online Summit followed by a reading with Mississippi author Kiese Laymon on Friday, August 28th, 2020. See below for the full schedule of panels and panelists from the event.
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Summit on the 65th Anniversary of the Murder of Emmett Till, Panel 1 - Emmett Till and Justice
Summit on the 65th Anniversary of the Murder of Emmett Till, Panel 1 - Emmett Till and Justice
Summit on the 65th Anniversary of the Murder of Emmett Till, Panel 2- Emmett Till and Memorialization
Summit on the 65th Anniversary of the Murder of Emmett Till, Panel 3- Emmett Till was my George Floyd, - the late Rep John Lewis
A Reading and Conversation with Kiese Laymon: In Conversation with Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf
Panel 1: Emmett Till and Justice
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Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr., cousin of Emmett Till
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Pastor Willie Williams, co-chair, Emmett Till Memorial Commission
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Vangela Wade, President and CEO, Mississippi Center for Justice
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Dale Killinger, former FBI Section Chief
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Moderator: Patrick Weems, Executive Director, Emmett Till Memorial Commission
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Panel 2: Emmett Till and Memorialization
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Dr. Marvel Parker, Wife of Rev. Wheeler Parker and Coordinator of efforts to get National Landmark Status for Roberts Temple in Chicago
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Chris Benson, Associate Professor of journalism at Northwestern University and co-author of Mamie Till-Mobley’s autobiography, Death of Innocence (2003)
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Katherine Malone-France, Chief Preservation Officer, National Trust
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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)
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Moderator: Nikki Buffa, Latham Watkins, LLC
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Panel 3: “Emmett Till was my George Floyd” - The late Rep. John Lewis
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Isabel Spafford, University of Mississippi student organizer
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Maisie Brown, organizer of the Jackson BLM march
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Albert Sykes, Executive Director of the Institute for Democratic Education in America
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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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