Southern Poverty Law Center hosts traveling exhibit on Emmett Till

By: Ralph Chapoco

Outlets: Alabama Reflector

Published: April 28, 2026

Words: 534

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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The Southern Poverty Law Center will host an exhibit on Emmett Till, whose murder in 1955 helped spur the modern Civil Rights Movement.

The exhibit, designed and created by the Emmett Till Interpretive Center and the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, features five components and provides details about life for Blacks living in the Jim Crow era in the South, Till’s life in Chicago and his trip to Mississippi where he was murdered days after he …

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