'Let The People See': It Took Courage To Keep Emmett Till's Memory Alive

Historian Elliott J. Gorn's new book revisits the 1955 death and public funeral of the African-American teen. Critic Maureen Corrigan says it's a timely story about the fragility of collective memory.

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