Special Weather Closing

Due to adverse weather conditions, all Rock Island Public Library buildings will be closed Monday, March 16. Meeting room reservations, library events, and Library2Go routes are also cancelled.

Even when our buildings are closed, our digital services put reading. music, movies/TV, and research at your fingertips. 

Remembering Black History -- The Lost Story of Emmett Till: Then & Now

2:00pm–3:00pm
Everyone
Downtown Library
Please note you are looking at an event that has already happened.
Library Branch: Downtown Library
Room: Downtown Community Room
Age Group: Everyone
Program Type: Movie
Event Details:

On August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, was brutally murdered after allegedly flirting with a white woman in Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market in the small town’s s