This is the true-to-life dramatization of the death of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a Chicago teenager who, while visiting relatives in Mississippi in August 1955, was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by two white men who claimed they wanted to teach him a lesson for (allegedly) whistling at a local white woman. The horror and brutality of this crime were magnified when Emmett’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, invited the media to Emmett's open-casket funeral so they could see for themselves her son's mutilated face. The shocking pictures were published by the American black press and later republished around the world, sparking a multitude of emotions and reactions. This play, written by Mamie Till-Mobley and David Barr III, will be directed by Dr. Rodney L. Clark.

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