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		<title>The Center Awards: Curator’s Choice Award 1st Place: Rich Frishman</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Black-Bayou-1000px-651x342.jpg" class="attachment-large wp-post-image" alt="In August 1955, 14-year old Emmett Till, visiting from Chicago, walked into Bryant&#039;s General Store in Money, Mississippi with his cousins, innocently whistling to control his stutter. The young white woman tending the store, Carolyn Bryant, told her husband that Emmett Till had whistled at her and made flirtatious advances. Several nights after the store incident, Bryant&#039;s husband Roy and his half-brother J.W. Milam went armed to Till&#039;s great-uncle&#039;s house and abducted the boy. They took him away and beat and mutilated him before shooting him in the head and throwing his body into Black Bayou from this bridge. Three days later, Till&#039;s body was discovered and retrieved 2 miles downstream, in the Tallahatchie River. Till&#039;s body was returned to Chicago where his mother insisted on a public funeral service with an open casket. &quot;The open-coffin funeral held by Mamie Till Bradley exposed the world to more than her son Emmett Till&#039;s bloated, mutilated body. Her decision focused attention not only on U.S. racism and the barbarism of lynching but also on the limitations and vulnerabilities of American democracy&quot;. Tens of thousands attended his funeral or viewed his open casket, and images of his mutilated body were published in black-oriented magazines and newspapers, rallying popular black support and white sympathy across the U.S. Intense scrutiny was brought to bear on the lack of black civil rights in Mississippi, with newspapers around the U.S. critical of the state. Although initially local newspapers and law enforcement officials decried the violence against Till and called for justice, they responded to national criticism by defending Mississippians, temporarily giving support to the killers.

In September 1955, Bryant and Milam were acquitted by an all-white jury of Till&#039;s kidnapping and murder. Protected against double jeopardy, the two men publicly admitted in a 1956 interview with Look magazine that they had killed Till. Decades later, Carolyn Bryant disclosed that she had fabricated the story that Till made verbal or physical advances towards her in the store. In 2004 the case was officially reopened by the United States Department of Justice. The defense team in the 1955 trial had questioned whether the body was that of Till. In 2004, Till&#039;s body was exhumed and positively identified. Till&#039;s original casket was then donated to the Smithsonian Institution and it is displayed in the National Museum of African American History and Culture. After Milam and Bryant were acquitted, they initially remained in Mississippi, but were boycotted, threatened, attacked and humiliated by local residents. Milam died in 1980 at the age of 61, and Bryant died in 1994 at the age of 63. Bryant expressed no remorse for his crime and stated: &quot;Emmett Till is dead. I don&#039;t know why he just can&#039;t stay dead.&quot;" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;" /><p>Congratulations to Rich Frishman for his First Place win in CENTER’S Curator’s Choice Award for her project, Ghosts of Segregation. The Choice Awards recognize outstanding photographers working in all processes and subject matter. Images can be singular or part of a series. Winners receive admission to Review Santa Fe portfolio reviews and participation in a</p>
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