An exceptional publication, both alarming and poignant, that sheds light on unresolved racial injustices in the time of Black Lives Matter The Mississippi Delta has been called "The Most Southern Place on Earth," a region of layered histories that collide with each other on a daily basis. It's a place that defines America and Americans like no other part of the country - a culture entwined with slavery, poverty, and political and economic oppression. It is the land that gave birth to the creative genius of Muddy Waters ...
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An exceptional publication, both alarming and poignant, that sheds light on unresolved racial injustices in the time of Black Lives Matter The Mississippi Delta has been called "The Most Southern Place on Earth," a region of layered histories that collide with each other on a daily basis. It's a place that defines America and Americans like no other part of the country - a culture entwined with slavery, poverty, and political and economic oppression. It is the land that gave birth to the creative genius of Muddy Waters and B.B. King, and to the horror of the Civil Rights-era murder of young Emmett Till. Shadows of Emmett Till seeks to probe that complex past: picturing the energy of a landscape that has bred both hatred and creativity, interrogating the whiteness that has always held power in its grip in a place that is predominantly Black, and observing the many ways the shadow of Till's murder still hangs over the Delta. This is work that breathes the Delta air and seeks to frame the region and its people in a 21 st -century context, at a time when white America may be starting to finally come to terms with the sins of its past. It guides the viewer in an exploration of what the Delta was and what it now is. Along the way, one can see the past spill into the present punctuated with troubling parallels to George Floyd and so many others.
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This new book of photographs, "Shadows of Emmett Till" (December 2022) is a meditation on the murder of Emmett Till in August 1955 near Money, Mississippi, on the contemorary Mississippi Delta, and on the continuing relationship between Till's murder and ongoing Delta life. Bob Newman, a retired physician who has gone on to a career as a photographer and storyteller is the author and photographer for the volume which also includes essays and poetry by David Atkinson, W. Ralph Eubanks, and Kevin Young.
For brief background, Emmett Till was a 14 year old boy from Chicago who travelled to the Delta together with a cousin in the summer of 1955 to visit relatives. Till went into a small grocery in Money, Mississippi where he whistled at the 21 year old proprietor who owned the store together with her husband. A few days later, the owner of the store and his half-brother took Till from the home of his uncle at 2:30 A,M. They brutally disfigured and murdered Till and threw his body into the Talahatchee River attached to a 75 pound weight. The body was discovered three days later and returned to Till's mother in Chicago where it was viewed, live and through photographs, by thousands of people. A trial of the two men took place in Summer, Mississippi in September, 1955 and received wide press coverage. The trial resulted in an acquittal after the jury deliberated for about one hour. A few months later, the two men admitted to the killing in an article in "Look" magazine. Till's story has never been forgotten and remains in the news today with several FBI investigations and failed attempts to bring charges against the now aged woman who owned the grocery store with her husband.
The book "Shadows of Emmett Till" is in two parts. The left-hand side of the volume consists of black and white photographs under a quotation from President Barack Obama: "The Past Isn't Dead and Buried: In Fact, it isn't even Past". The section begins with two brief essays on segregation in the South and on Lynching. It includes photographs from the era of Jim Crow, with many photos from the Depression-era. The photos move forward in time to cover Emmett Till's fatal journey to the Delta and the sites, events, and people involved in his murder and subsequent trial. This section offers a moving photographic overview of the Delta during Till's life and of his brutal murder and trial.
The right-hand, and longer, part of the book consists of photographs in color taken by Bob Newman in the Delta between 2014 and the present. The section includes two essays and a poem "Money Road" by Kevin Young in addition to the many photos. Most of the photos are from Mississippi with some from Arkansas and others from Memphis. The photos offer a vision of the contemporary Delta. The photos show the flat, stark farmland which often seems to extend forever, together with the swamps and bayousand rivers. The photos include many little towns, including Money, Greenwood, and Sumner, that were involved in Emmitt Till's story together with others. There are many photos of churches, juke joints, and small restaurants. The feeling of the blues is never far from these photos. The book includes photos of many small shops of streets at night and of people, both black and white but seldom together. There is a feeling of poverty in these photographs and a sense, for those outside the Delta, that it is a place different from anything they know. The photos also show a life of harshness, toughness and resilience.
The book invites reflection of Emmett Till and on the current state of race relations in the United States. Till's story and the history of the region remain integral to the current Delta. I was fortunate to find this book in my local public library and to be moved in seeing the photographs and in thinking about Emmett Till and about the Mississippi Delta.
