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Emmett Till's Family Honored In 2 Works By Sculptor Richard Hunt At Loyola Exhibit
The Chicago teen was brutally beaten and killed in Mississippi in 1955. Hunt lived near the Till family.
November 12, 2025
This coming Thursday, Loyola University Chicago's Black alumni board will hold a special birthday celebration for Chicago civil rights icon Mamie Till-Mobley, who would have turned 104 years old this month.
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The celebration will be at an art exhibit that uniquely captures Till-Mobley's story.
Chicago artist Richard Hunt, who died in December 2023 at the age of 88, has many prominent works — including a sculpture that graces the façade of the Michael A. Bilandic Building downtown. But "Hero's Head" is a very different sculpture that Hunt created in 1956, after the racially charged murder of Emmett Till.
