By Aaron Morrison | The Associated Press Residents of Baltimore gather during the community’s response to the 2015 in-custody death of Freddie Gray. The
Emmett Till became widely known because his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, asked a press photographer to document Emmett s funeral. The horrifying 1955 photographs depicted tangible evidence of how violent racial hatred was plaguing the U.S.
The new “Impact of Images” campaign includes the celebrated work of Black photographers and photojournalists from the civil rights and post-civil rights era alongside work from photographers of the Black Lives Matter generation.
Devin Allen admits he occasionally behaved like a knucklehead growing up in Baltimore. But he was not so irreverent as a 10th grader that he could see an image of Emmett Till s open casket and not find it arresting.