Sarah Elisabeth Braun
Emmett Till, 14 years old and Black, was vacationing in the Southern United States in 1955 when he was brutally murdered. His mother, Maime Till, decided to have her disfigured son laid out in state with an open coffin, thus triggering a tipping point in the Civil Rights Movement.
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VISUAL DREAMING EMMETT – a retelling
His murderers were acquitted, but Emmett Till's spirit lived on, accompanying generations of Black families and haunting the collective memory of white society. What happens to a person whose life was cut short in such a cruel way?
What happens to all those murdered as a result of racist violence? Why do people always hear their voices whisper louder when they connect with their story?
In Toni Morrison's 1985 play "Dreaming Emmett," the audience encounters a person who has returned to re-dream his story. One who doesn't yet know what he needs to find peace. Understanding? Justice? Or perhaps revenge? Toni Morrison once said, "A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick." Dreaming Emmett is both a dream and a nightmare. It all depends on whose perspective you look at it from.
(IN GERMAN)
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Content Note: racist language, anti-Black violence, murder, sexism
Dates
June 2025
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