Opening Convening

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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, please click the link below

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