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HEUVELTON -- Heuvelton students will hear the story of Emmett Till, a black teen whose death galvanized the civil rights movement of the 1950s. Airickca Gordon-Taylor, Executive Director at Mamie …
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HEUVELTON -- Heuvelton students will hear the story of Emmett Till, a black teen whose death galvanized the civil rights movement of the 1950s.
Airickca Gordon-Taylor, Executive Director at Mamie Till Mobley Memorial Foundation, will be visiting Heuvelton Central School on March 27.
This visit was arranged by John Liquori, a fifth grade teacher in the district who invited Gordon-Taylor to visit his fifth grade class to share the story of her cousin Emmett Till.
During the summer of 1955 at age 14, Till traveled from Chicago, Ill. to visit relatives in Money, Miss. When he reportedly flirted with a white cashier at a grocery store, two white men kidnapped Till, beat him and shot him in the head.
The men were tried for murder, but an all-white, male jury acquitted them. Till's murder and open casket funeral galvanized the emerging civil rights movement.
In preparation for the visit, the fifth graders at Heuvelton have been studying human rights and Martin Luther King Jr.
Gordon-Taylor will also visit eighth grade students during their Social Studies classes and speak to High School students during a special assembly.
