<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-08-21/westmont-news/talk-examine-civil-rights-tragedy.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>08/25/2016</pubDate><title>Talk to Examine Civil Rights Tragedy</title><excerpt>Westmont alumnus Dave Tell ’98, associate professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas, explores the emergence of commemorations for the life of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955. “The Emmett Till Memory Project,” sponsored by the Erasmus Society Lectureship endowment, is free and open to the public Thursday, Sept. 8 at 7 p.m. at Westmont’s Adams Center for the Visual Arts, Room 216.</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
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