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Dave Tell

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In Search of the Broad Highway

Revisiting Meredith v. Fair, we get the inside story of how critical race theory was developed in the years after Brown v. Board of Education.

by Dave Tell via The Hedgehog Review on July 26, 2024
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Excluding Black Americans From Our History Has Proved Deadly

Why it's so important to remember even our ugliest and most racist chapters.

by Nancy Bercaw, Dave Tell, Tsione Wolde-Michael via Made By History on October 20, 2021
How Poverty Is Reshaping the Story of Emmett Till's Murder

Beset by poverty, Glendora, Mississippi clings desperately to a version of Till's story that few others seem to believe.

by Dave Tell via The Conversation on May 9, 2019
Remembering Emmett Till

The ruins of a country store suggest that locals have neglected the memory of Emmett Till’s murder.

by Dave Tell via Places Journal on April 1, 2019

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Emmett Till's photo is seen on his grave marker in 2002.

Journalist Withheld Information About Emmett Till’s Murder, Documents Show

William Bradford Huie’s newly released research notes show he suspected more than two men tortured and killed Emmett Till, but suggest that he left it out.

by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on August 29, 2024

Beulah Melton, widow of shotgun-victim Clinton Melton, sits with her four children and talks with civil rights activist Medgar Evers

The Forgotten Story of Clinton Melton

An accomplice of Emmett Till's killers murdered a Black man in a neighboring town, and there were parallels in the trials.

via Radio Diaries on August 27, 2020

Emmett Till Memory Project

The website version of an app designed to be a digital guide to the legacy of Till’s murder.

by Emmett Till Interpretive Center on August 1, 2019

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