North Central College welcomes author Elliott Gorn as guest lecturer on the subject “The Ghost of Emmett Till” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, in the College’s Harold and Eva White Activities Center. Gorn, one of the nation’s foremost scholars of American urban, cultural and social history, is the Joseph Gagliano Professor of American Urban History at Loyola University Chicago. His talk will focus on Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black teenager from Chicago whose 1955 brutal murder in Mississippi helped spur the modern civil rights movement. This free event is presented by the College’s Cultural Events program
North Central College welcomes author Elliott Gorn as guest lecturer on the subject “The Ghost of Emmett Till” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, in the College’s Harold and Eva White Activities Center. Gorn, one of the nation’s foremost scholars of American urban, cultural and social history, is the Joseph Gagliano Professor of American Urban History at Loyola University Chicago. His talk will focus on Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black teenager from Chicago whose 1955 brutal murder in Mississippi helped spur the modern civil rights movement. This free event is presented by the College’s Cultural Events program