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Jet took photos of Martin Luther King Jr. Speaking and greeting fans, as well as detailed pictures of the subjects of the Entertainment section, including of Jimi Hendrix. The most famous picture taken and published by Jet was the remains of Emmett Till's face after his tragic death in 1955. [22]
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.
One of Johnson's most notable issues of Jet was the September 15, 1955 issue in which he published a picture of a Chicago–youth Emmett Till's mutilated body after it had arrived in Chicago from Mississippi. [8] People considered Johnson's decision to publish Till's photograph his greatest moment.
Photographs of Till’s body were published in Jet magazine and shared ... She also created The Emmett Till Players youth theatre troupe in 1973 to perform speeches from civil rights leaders ...
The killing galvanized the civil rights movement after Till’s mother insisted on an open casket and Jet magazine published photos of his brutalized body. The Senate bill was introduced by Sens ...
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.
Warren K. Leffler's photograph of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at the National Mall. Beginning with the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, photography and photographers played an important role in advancing the civil rights movement by documenting the public and private acts of racial discrimination against African Americans and the nonviolent response of the movement.
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