Harold and DeLuca, Emmett Till, and Billie Holiday

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In their paper, "Behold the Corpse," Harold & DeLuca explain the cultural response to images of Emmett Till's murdered body going viral in 1955. They claim that the widespread distribution of these brutal photographs caused the previously-invisible practice of lynching (which had largely been forced underground for decades) into mainstream media outlets, changing race relations United States. Billie Holliday noted a similar cultural response to her song, "Strange Fruit," because, like Till's photos, it made visible something that white supremacists preferred remain invisible: lynching.

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