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February 24, 2016
Exhibit Tells Story of Emmett Till
In 1955, Mamie Till, the griev-
ing mother of Emmett Till, said
she wanted the world to see what
had been done to her son.
Sixty years later, the glass-
topped cofin that displayed the
mutilated body of the 14-year-old
victim of racial hatred is among
thousands of compelling artifacts
slated for display in the Smith-
sonian’s new National Museum
of African American History and
Culture in Washington, D.C.
Anticipation builds as the
museum, opening in Septem-
ber, prepares to receive visitors
from around the world. It will
The death of Emmett Till in 1955 shocked the nation.
tell the story of American history
like never before - from an Afri-
can-American perspective.
When the doors open, the three-
loor, 400,000-square-foot facility
will not only display ancient arti-
facts but also showcase more cur-
rent events and how they it into the
continuum of American history.
“We want to be the place where
people come and say, ‘OK, this
just happened. What’s the back-
ground to this? What preceded
this?’” says John Franklin, a mu-
seum director. So items from re-
cent occurrences such as the Black
Lives Matter campaign and the
20th anniversary of the Million
Man March will be included.
The ive-acre museum site,
located on Constitution Avenue,
between the Washington Monu-
ment and the National Museum
of American History, will be the
only national museum devoted
exclusively to the documentation
of African-American life, art,
history and culture. Among the
exhibits will be an underground
gallery tracing artifacts from a
sunken slave ship from the 1500s
to the administration of President
Barack Obama, America’s irst
African-American president.
AME Zion Food
and Clothing Drive
First A.M.E. Zion Church is
helping people in need by collect-
ing donations of food and cloth-
ing.
Donations can be made at the
church, located at 4304 N. Van-
couver Ave., each irst Saturday
of the month at 9 a.m. The next
collection date is Saturday, March
5. “Our goal is to cloth and feed
Portland one Oregonian at a time,”
a church leader said.