Dave Tell ’98 decided to write his doctoral dissertation on public confessions in American history, a practice that resonated with his evangelical Christian background. The first one he studied concerned the 1955 horrific lynching of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old accused of offending a white woman in Money, Mississippi, where he was visiting family. The Black Chicago teenager was kidnapped, mutilated, murdered and thrown in the river. 1 Column Content Background Color White Ali...