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Mamie Till at Emmett Till's funeral, 1955. In the summer of 1955, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago was visiting family in Webb, Mississippi. On August 28, Till was abducted, beaten, and lynched by two white men after they accused him of whistling at one of the men's wives. [2] [4] After Till's murder, his body ...
On Sept. 3, 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley held an open-casket funeral in Illinois. ... Photographs from the funeral of Emmett Till at a Chicago Historical Society exhibit.
Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was a 14-year-old African American youth, who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store.
Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley [a] (born Mamie Elizabeth Carthan; November 23, 1921 – January 6, 2003) was the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old youth murdered in Mississippi on August 28, 1955, after being accused of offending a white grocery store cashier named Carolyn Bryant.
An undated portrait of Emmett Louis Till, a Black 14 year old Chicago boy, whose weighted down body was found in the Tallahatchie River near the Delta community of Money, Mississippi, August 31, 1955.
On 20 August 1955, Till-Mobley sent her teenage son on a southbound train from Chicago for a two-week stay in the small town of Money, Mississippi, where he would stay with relatives and spend ...
English: Mamie Till looks over the body of her son Emmett Till at the morgue before his funeral. With her is her fiancé, Gene Mobley. This photograph was named by Time magazine in 2016 as one of the 100 most influential photos of all time.
Mamie Till Mobley, Emmett's mother, weeps at her son's funeral on Sept. 6, 1955, in Chicago. She insisted that her son's body be displayed in an open casket forcing the nation to see the brutality ...