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I met Loann outside Mary’s Place in 2007, following a Women in Black vigil, and I was quickly drawn into conversation with her. It was only a few minutes into the conversation that Loann brought up her love of cooking and the enormous satisfaction she took from cooking for other women at Mary’s Place. Food, family, love, and community were clearly closely connected for Loann. She had an energetic laugh and was eager to speak about her life and her organizing work with WHEEL and Women in Black.
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Raised in Chicago, Till was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, when he was killed. When Till’s body was recovered from the Tallahatchie River, a seventy-five-pound cotton-gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire, one eye had been gouged out and he’d been beaten severely enough to sustain several broken bones, and then shot in the head at point blank range. Roy Bryant and his J. W. Milam, who were tried and acquitted for the crime, subsequently recounted the killing in an interview with Look magazine. See Mamie Till-Mobley’s account (with Christopher Benson) in Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America (New York: Random House, 2002); see also The Lynching of Emmett Till, A Documentary Narrative, ed. Christopher Metress (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002).
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Hellegers, D. (2011). Delores Loann Winston. In: No Room of Her Own. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230339200_9
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