Item Information
Title
Transforming Hate
Creator
Clarissa Sligh
Publisher
[Asheville, North Carolina] : Clarissa T. Sligh
Date
2016
Type
Still image
Text
When I was 14
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Brown vs .Board of Education, that racially segregated public schools were a violation of the 14th Amendment, and therefore, unconstitutional.
But nothing changed where I lived.
When I was 15.
Emmett Till, a 14-year old black boy, was brutally killed in Mississippi for speaking to a white woman.
I will never forget the photographs of his bloated body pulled from the Tallahatchee River. Mainstream newspapers were mostly silent, but the pictures were published in all the black newspapers and magazines.
We were about the same age.
What do I know about white supremacy?
An all-white jury acquitted two white men, who boasted in public that they had killed Emmet.
The conditioning to hate is very much alive in the world.
Can this be transformed?
Transforming Hate An Artist's Book
Clarrissa Sligh
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Brown vs .Board of Education, that racially segregated public schools were a violation of the 14th Amendment, and therefore, unconstitutional.
But nothing changed where I lived.
When I was 15.
Emmett Till, a 14-year old black boy, was brutally killed in Mississippi for speaking to a white woman.
I will never forget the photographs of his bloated body pulled from the Tallahatchee River. Mainstream newspapers were mostly silent, but the pictures were published in all the black newspapers and magazines.
We were about the same age.
What do I know about white supremacy?
An all-white jury acquitted two white men, who boasted in public that they had killed Emmet.
The conditioning to hate is very much alive in the world.
Can this be transformed?
Transforming Hate An Artist's Book
Clarrissa Sligh