"What if Emmett Till lived? What if he had returned home still a child, alive and free? These statements invite a range of questions, a reckoning with the past, and a probing investigation of the current state of American life. If Emmett Till Lived: A Photographic Monument offers a collective arena to consider how freedom has been secured on American ground. This volume is a creative monument to Till’s unlived life. It lets us picture what could have come. It is a space where we can imagine it: his untaken one-way trip from Mississippi home to Illinois, the travels he should have been able to take from there around the world. Edited by Sarah Lewis, the volume contains essays by Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch, Vinson Cunningham, Paul Farber, Sherrilyn Ifill, Sarah Lewis, Siddhartha Mitter, Jeneé Osterheldt, and Patrick Weems that asks, as Lewis writes, “What would it have required for Till to live? What would that have required of us all?”