Freedom Highway is a 1965 album by The Staple Singers. The title song was written for the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights and reflects not only on the actions of the activists but what suffering they had endured to get there, even referencing the murder of Emmett Till at Tallahatchie River. The lyrics begin “March up freedom's highway / March, each and every day.” and continue “Made up my mind / And I won't turn around." Mavis Staples reprised the song in 2008 on Live: Hope at the Hideout, which was released on November 4, 2008, the same day that Barack Obama won the presidential election.

Staples, joined by Jeff Tweedy, performed "Freedom Highway" on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert at Chicago's Auditorium Theater on August 22, 2024, on the occasion of the closing night of the Democratic National Convention. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZaCrcBaQI4&list=RDXZaCrcBaQI4&start_radio=1

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Priscilla Williams-Till, Cousin of Emmett Till, Launches Senate Bid in Mississippi https://shinemycrown.com/priscilla-williams-till-cousin-of-emmett-till-launches-senate-bid-in-mississippi/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #PriscillaWilliamsTill #EmmettTill #CivilRights #SenateRace #Mississippi

Could #EmmettTill’s Coffin Be Erased From the #Smithsonian?

Seventy years after Till’s murder, the #antiwoke war on the #NMAAHC raises an unthinkable question

https://wordinblack.com/2025/08/emmett-till-coffin-erased-from-smithsonian/

#racist #racism #BLM #Blackhistory #POTUS

On this day in 1955, fourteen year old Emmett Till was abducted and lynched by Roy Bryant & J. W. Milam for offending Carolyn Bryant, a white woman. Till's mutilated body was discovered 3 days later in the Tallahatchie River. In September of '55 an all white jury found Bryant & Milam not guilty of Till's murder.
#EmmettTill

Today in Labor History August 28, 1955: Teenager Emmett Till was brutally murdered on this day in Money, Mississippi, for speaking "inappropriately" to a white woman. The brutality of the murder and the lack of justice for his family helped to mobilize opposition to segregation in America. An all-white jury acquitted Till’s killers, Roy Bryant and his half-brother J. W. Milam. The next year, both men publicly admitted in an interview with Look magazine that they had tortured and murdered the boy. The magazine paid them selling $4,000 (equivalent to $43,000 in 2022) for the story. Between 1876 and 1930, over 500 African Americans were lynched in Mississippi, alone, and over 3,000 across the South. A memorial marker for Emmett Till, erected in 2006, was defaced with "KKK", and then completely covered with black paint. 8 more markers were erected at sites associated with Till's lynching in 2007. Some of these were vandalized, too. One of the signs received over 100 bullet holes. In 2018, three University of Mississippi students were suspended from their fraternity after posting to Instagram a photo of them posing in front of the bullet-riddled marker, with guns.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #racism #lynching #Kkk #EmmettTill #mississippi #JimCrow #torture #BlackMastadon

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1955, 14-year-old #EmmettTill was brutally #lynched after a woman falsely accused him. Her husband and brother-in-law were acquitted by an all-white Mississippi jury, but later confessed in an interview. No-one was ever held accountable. #BlackLivesMatter

This is my cousin. She lives in Seneca Falls, New York. Yes, this is from Facebook but about “good trouble.”
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#28August

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https://natureisourmedicine.com/f/glendora-and-the-emmett-till-historic-intrepid-center-ethic

#history #stars #mayor #book #history #emmetttill #ethic #museum #glendora #mississippi #canon #canonphotography #travel #adventure #journey #rv #rvlife #vanlife #winnebago #winnebagoera #blog #slavery #jimcrow #harvesthosts

#OnThisDay in 2023, US President #JoeBiden signs a proclamation establishing the #EmmettTill and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, located at two sites in Mississippi and one in Illinois; Emmett is a Black teen abducted and murdered in 1955 while vacationing in Mississippi, and his mother Mamie pushes for civil rights legislation after his death.

https://natureisourmedicine.com/f/glendora-and-the-emmett-till-historic-intrepid-center-ethic #stars #mayor #book #history #emmetttill #ethic #museum #glendora #mississippi #canon #canonphotography #travel #adventure #journey #rv #rvlife #vanlife #winnebago #winnebagoera #blog #harvesthosts

"The #EmmettTill Memory Project (ETMP), an app, is one of them. It uses digitized archival documents, photos of those involved and of sites central to that fateful August day, and more so that users may #educate themselves about who Emmett Till was and why his death still resonates. The ETMP’s digital assets are vital to ensuring the ongoing preservation of Till’s memory as well as his legacy."

JSTOR https://daily.jstor.org/portico-emmett-till/
#racism #history

#JusticeDepartment launches first federal review of 1921 #TulsaRaceMassacre;
The federal review, launched under the #EmmettTill Unsolved #CivilRights Crime Act, is expected to be finalized by the end of the year.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/10/01/justice-department-tulsa-race-massacre/75472761007/

The Truth About Emmett Till Wasn’t in Your History Book

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/09/22/emmett-till-political-campaign-00180137

#news #CivilRightsMovement #history #EmmettTill

The Truth About #EmmettTill Wasn’t in Your #HistoryBook

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/09/22/emmett-till-political-campaign-00180137

The true #history of the #lynching that begat the #civilrights movement began with the #Mississippi gubernatorial #election that was all about preserving #segregation.

See our latest on Moses Wright. Wright was Emmett Till's great uncle. He identified Till's killers at trial. #Mississippi #MosesWright #EmmettTill #MamieTill

https://zurl.co/7lKm

President Biden signing the H.R.55 the anti lynching bill a federal hate crime.

69 Years today.#EmmettTill

Remembering #EmmettTill, who was murdered 69 years ago on this day.

#emmetttill
Remembering Emmett Till.