White Artist’s Painting of Emmett Till at Whitney Biennial Draws Protests

NY Times ^ | March 21, 2017 | Randy Kennedy

[C19fan]

The open-coffin photographs of the mutilated body of Emmett Till, the teenager who was lynched by two white men in Mississippi in 1955, served as a catalyst for the civil rights movement and have remained an open wound in American society since they were first published in Jet magazine and The Chicago Defender at the urging of Till’s mother.

The images’ continuing power, more than 60 years later, to speak about race and violence is being demonstrated once again in protests that have arisen online and at the newly opened Whitney Biennial over the decision of a white artist, Dana Schutz, to make a painting based on the photographs.

[JimRed]

NYT:
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We’re sorry, we seem to have lost this page,
but we don’t want to lose you.

[Albion Wilde]

I'll try it again, same page I tried to link earlier:

Woman Linked to 1955 Emmett Till Murder Tells Historian Her Claims Were False

[JimRed]

Thanks, it worked this time.

[T-Bone Texan]

Emmitt Till’s father was executed for raping Italian women during WW2.