{"id":58482,"date":"2018-03-29T17:12:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T17:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=58482"},"modified":"2018-03-29T17:12:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T17:12:03","slug":"as-a-brit-my-two-emmett-tills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=58482","title":{"rendered":"As a Brit, my two Emmett Tills"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — honoring the Civil Rights movement ]
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I’m truly sorry, but these two photos tell a mother’s tale — Emmett Till<\/strong> as his mother knew and loved him, and Emmett Till as she found him, when she ordered his coffin opened…<\/p>\n

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There’s a documentary now released — Hope and Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media<\/a> — which features Emmett Till<\/strong>‘s image as revealed in photographs taken when his coffin was opened, and exploring how that image radicalized Americas’s awareness of the lynching mentality, sending a shock wave amplifying the emergent Civil Rights movement.<\/p>\n

America is remembering — and I as a Brit have two Emmett Tills to remember: Hugh Masekela<\/strong>, — and Medgar Evers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Hugh Masekela:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hugh Masekela, the great jazz trumpeter<\/a> whom my own mentor, Fr Trevor Huddleston<\/strong> mentored and gifted:<\/p>\n