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Memory and the Media - Christopher Benson

Presented by Salt Lake City Public Library at City Library Auditorium

January 23, 2009

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Christopher Benson is co-author (with Mamie Till-Mobley) of Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America. Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy from Chicago, was brutally murdered in August 1955 while visiting relatives in Mississippi. His mother's courageous decision to have an open casket at the funeral 'empowered the media to nationalize the lynching.' Benson and two other guests will discuss how images published 50 years ago continue to resonate in popular culture. Death of Innocence received the 2004 BlackBoard Nonfiction Book of the Year award and the 2003 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Special Recognition.

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    City Library Auditorium

    210 East 400 South
    Salt Lake City, UT 84111

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    January 23, 2009

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    Friday 7:00pm

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