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December 22, 2016
Will it spur more of an effort to solve civil rights murders than the original legislation?
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Emmett Till
Emmett Till Research Collection Established at Florida State University Library
September 8, 2015
The Florida State University Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives Division and Professor Davis W. Houck will establish what will become the foremost research collection on the life and death of Emmett Till, an African-American teenager whose murder in Mississippi in 1955 sparked protest in the South. Till’s death helped galvanize the civil rights movement in America, and Friday, Aug. 28, marks the 60th anniversary of his murder. Till, 14, was kidnapped, beaten and shot after he allegedly flirted with a white woman. “We’re very excited for this project because there is just simply nothing like it,” said Houck, a faculty
Award-Winning Filmmaker Discusses Kickstarter Campaign for Emmett Till Biopic
September 3, 2015
Producer Keith Beauchamp is no stranger to the violent and unjust history of Emmett Till.
It was his Emmy-nominated film, The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, which prompted the U.S. Justice Department to reopen the case in 2004. Since his production of Untold Keith has worked closely with the FBI, specifically its Civil Rights Cold Case Initiative, producing documentaries on other unsolved civil rights murders as the Executive Producer and Host of Investigation Discovery’s (ID) crime reality series, “The Injustice Files.”