Emmett Till: How She Sent Him and How She Got Him Back is a 2012 painting by African-American artist Lisa Whittington. The painting is a portrait of Emmett Till, a 14-year old boy who was kidnapped an
Emmett Till How She Sent Him and How She Got Him Back
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A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial, entombment or cremation with the attendant observances. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and
Emmett Till: How She Sent Him and How She Got Him Back
…for offending a white woman in 1955. The painting depicts Till's face before and after his lynching; Emmett Till's mother, Mamie Till, famously held an open casket funeral for him, showing his mutilated body to visitors and the press. As of February 2019, the painting is displayed at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum…
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