Happy 80th Birthday Emmett Till
Waldina
English - July 25, 2021 15:02 - 10 minutes - 5.83 MBArts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Today is the 80th birthday of Emmett Till. His lynching and his mother’s decision to have an open casket funeral, thus exposing the extent of the damages to her 14 year old son, was one of the major catalysts for the Civil Rights Movement. The story is in the headlines even now. The world is a better place because he was in it and still feels the loss that he has left.
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://waldina.com/2021/07/25/happy-80th-birthday-emmett-till/
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