Sentences with phrase «brutally lynched»

This consensus lasted only a few days before it was demolished by an angry cascade of angry objections to the inclusion of Dana Schutz's painting Open Casket, a semi-abstract rendering of a photograph of the corpse of Emmett Till, an African - American youth who was brutally lynched in 1955 after being falsely accused of flirting with a white woman.

Contributed by Sharon Butler / In 1955, two white men brutally lynched Emmet Till, a black 14 - year - old boy from Chicago who was visiting relatives in their Mississippi town.

Jackson faces the elephants in the room of whites and blacks having deep, meaningful relationships very quickly, especially in book two when one of the White main character's husband, Denny, is mistaken by, MaDea, an aging African American woman who is suffering from dementia, as one of the men who brutally lynched her brother nearly 70 years ago.

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Despite this, one painting in particular is causing righteous furore: Dana Schutz's Open Casket (2016) crudely depicts the mutilated face of Emmett Till, a 14 - year - old African - American male brutally abducted and lynched by white supremacists in Mississippi on 28 August 1955, whose murderers were all acquitted.