Humanities Connections

This 67-minute documentary film takes a look at the incident in which Emmett Till was brutally lynched, including never-before-seen testimonies.

This poetry collection brings together 15 sonnets by Marilyn Nelson that pay tribute to Emmett Till, in 34 pages with full color illustrations.

This unique VR documentary brings the viewer into the heart of the Mississippian towns that are creating memorials for Emmett Till, more than six decades after his death.

This memoir of Mamie Till-Mobley, Emmett Till's mother, was published in 2003, co-written by Christopher Benson.

The song Strange Fruit was written and set to music by the Jewish-American poet Abel Meeropol in the early 20th century as a protest song against racial injustice and lynching in the United States. Holiday's performances of the song across New York in the 1940s became the spark of the burgeoning civil rights movement, which would be fanned into flame by the murder of Emmett Till a decade later.

An article on protest songs in the wake of Emmett Till's murder, from Southern Cultures Vol. 15, No. 3, Music (FALL 2009), pp. 115-138 (24 pages).