The Dallas Civil Rights Museum will host a panel discussion Emmett Till: 60 Years Later

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, August 6, 2015                   FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:

                                                                                                              Natashia Cooper - MLK Community Center

                       (214) 670-8417

 

The Dallas Civil Rights Museum will host a panel discussion Emmett Till: 60 Years Later

What:         The public is invited to attend a panel discussion hosted by the Dallas

                   Civil Rights Museum at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community

                   Center.  This will be a forum to observe the 60th anniversary of the brutal

                   murder of 14 year old Emmett Till on August 28, 1955, in Money, MS.  Dr. W.

                   Marvin Dulaney, head of the History Department at the University of Texas at

                   Arlington (UTA) will lead the panel discussion.

 

                  The panel will present an overview of events that followed the Chicago  

                   teenager’s murder:  the open casket funeral, the acquittal of the men tried for

                   the crime, media attention the acquittal drew, and the world’s response  to

                   man’s inhumanity. Since 1955, unknown numbers of young black people

                  have lost their lives in similar circumstances. The panel will touch on what

                  has transpired between Till’s untimely death in 1955 and the death of     

                  many others through today.

 

                  Panelists will include Dr. Robert Bing, UTA Department of Criminal  Justice;

                  Mr. James Hawthorne, Retired Assistant Chief of Police (Arlington Police

                 Department); Judge C. Victor Lander; and Mrs. Collette Flanagan, Mothers   

                 Against Police Brutality.

                           This is a free event but an RSVP is required. All media outlets are invited.

 

When:                          Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 6:30 p.m.

 

Where:                         The Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center, Bldg. A, located at 2922 MLK

                                      Boulevard

 

Who:                             The Dallas Civil Rights Museum is hosting this event.

 

For more information or to RSVP, please contact (214) 670-8417. You can also visit www.mlkcelebrationdallas.org.

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