Please join MoCP for a day of programs in honor of the opening of the exhibition, If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground, curated byDr. Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and Revered Wheeler Parker, Jr., Emmett Till’s cousin, best friend, and last surviving witness to his kidnapping.

Participants include:

• Artist, Dawoud Bey
• Founding Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Lonnie G. Bunch III
• President and CEO of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, Sharon L. Davies
• Director and Co-founder of the Monument Lab, Dr. Paul M. Farber
  Attorney, Professor, and Former President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Sherrilyn Ifill
• Lawyer and Politician, Mitch Landrieu
• President and CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Brent Leggs
• Guest Curator, If Emmett Till Lived, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis
• Artist, Cecil McDonald, Jr.
• Emmett Till’s Cousin and Friend, Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr.
• Artist, avery r. young

And other guests of honor

The Opening Convening will take place at Columbia College Chicago’s Student Center located at 754 S Wabash Ave, 5th Floor Auditorium. All are invited to MoCP for the opening reception following the convening. MoCP is located on the ground level of 600 S Michigan Ave.

This program is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

Image Credit: David Plowden, Railroad Yards, South Chicago, 1966, printed 1983. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy: Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago.