The Face Of Emmett Till (Encore performance)

August  28, 1955 -- 50 years ago Emmett Till was brutally murdered. June 2,  2005 - The F.B.I. reopens the case. The Face of Emmett Till is a  true-to-life dramatization of the death of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a  Chicago teenager who, while visiting relatives in Money, Miss., in  August 1955, was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by two white men who  claimed they wanted to teach him a lesson for "allegedly" whistling at a  local white woman. The horror and the brutality of this crime were  magnified even more when his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, made the fateful  decision to invite the media to the funeral where she had an open  casket.

As  retold for the first time within a creative, nonfictional genre by  Mamie Till-Mobley, the play chronicles this tragedy, its aftermath, and  her heroic crusade for justice.

Please Note: this play does include graphic violence and strong language.