![]() "I would come to understand and appreciate them and their bravery as I learned just what was being put on the line down there in Mississippi, and how it all related to Emmett and me," Till-Mobley wrote in her memoir, " Death of Innocence. In Harlem, Till-Mobley addressed a crowd of 10,000, in a demonstration organized by the hugely influential Civil Rights group the NAACP (via New-York Historical Society). The killing - and the image of Emmett's mutilated body, which had been viewed in an open casket by an estimated 100,000 people (per The Washington Post) and shared via photographs in Jet magazine - became an incendiary moment in the history of the Civil Rights movement and a symbol of the violence and inequality Black Americans still faced, especially in the south.Įmmett Till's murder became an even greater call to arms when, a month later, his killers were acquitted by an all-white jury after deliberations of little more than an hour. Her decision to let the world see the mutilated remains of her son in Jet magazine and in an open-casket funeral is credited as the catalyst for the. ![]() ![]() Emmett had been sent by his mother to visit cousins in Money, Mississippi, where he was abducted, tortured, and shot dead by two white men in a racially motivated lynching. November 23 marks the 100th birthday of Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Chicago boy who was brutally lynched in the Mississippi Delta in 1955. ![]()
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