Remembering Emmett Till

Communications professor Dave Tell explores the thin line between honoring and exploiting a murder victim's memory in Remembering Emmet Till.

Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and you'll find a landscape dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the civil rights movement. Perhaps the most chilling are those devoted to the murder of Emmett Till, a tragedy of hate and injustice that became a beacon in the fight for racial equality. The ways this event is remembered...