Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A printed handbill advertising a speaking engagement sponsored by the Boston Branch of the NAACP for Rev. Morris H. Tynes, Pastor of Monumental Baptist Church in Chicago, regarding the Emmett Till case at the A.M.E. Zion Church in Boston on Sunday October 9, 1955.

The flier is printed in black ink on off-white paper. The top half of the flier reads "Race Hatred Rampant In Mississippi, Rev. Morris H. Tynes, Pastor of Monumental Baptist Church in Chicago, Ill. Speaks on the Emmett Till Case, 14 Year Old Negro Boy and Others Murdered in Mississippi." The bottom half of the flier has the event sponsorship date, time and location information. The verso of the handbill contains pencil and ink notations of people's names and numbers.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: October 9, 1955
• Created by: Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911
• Subject of: Emmett Till, American, 1941 - 1955
• Subject of: Rev. Morris H. Tynes, American
• Subject of: African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, American, founded 1821
• Subject of: Monumental Baptist Church, American, founded 1919
• Type: handbills
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 8 3/8 x 5 3/8 in. (21.3 x 13.7 cm)
• Place made: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: African Methodist Episcopal
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Baptist
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Methodist
• Topic: The Black Church
• Object number: 2012.46.34.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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