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Guest curated by Sarah Lewis, an acclaimed art and cultural historian, academic, and founder of Vision & Justice, If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground constructs a fictionalized poetic narrative imagining the life Emmett Till might have lived had he returned home in 1955, rather than being killed at the age of fourteen while visiting family in Mississippi, a victim of the racial terror of Jim Crow rule. As an extension of Vision & Justice, this exhibition presents selections Lewis will draw from MoCP鈥檚 permanent collection to reframe Till鈥檚 legacy through photographs. Collectively, the images will span photographic genres including social documentary, portraiture, landscape, and architecture based on subject matter, time period, and geographic relevance, including his birthplace in Chicago, the site of his death in Mississippi, and imagined spaces representing a life unrealized. The exhibition will shift focus from the violence of Till鈥檚 death to the sacredness of personal and cultural experiences, such as a birthday party, riding bicycles, or family gatherings鈥攕eemingly mundane moments that convey the depth of what was lost.