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Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley [a] (born Mamie Elizabeth Carthan; November 23, 1921 – January 6, 2003) was an American educator and activist. She was the mother of Emmett Till , the 14-year-old teenager murdered in Mississippi on August 28, 1955, after accusations that he had whistled at a white grocery store cashier named Carolyn Bryant.
Mamie Till-Mobley never wanted her son to go to Money, Mississippi. In fact, she said no, many times over. It was the summer of 1955, and Emmett—she called him Bobo—had just turned 14. His ...
Mamie Till-Mobley (born November 23, 1921, near Webb, Mississippi, U.S.—died January 6, 2003, Chicago, Illinois) was an American educator and activist who helped galvanize the emerging civil rights movement after her son, Emmett Till, was murdered in 1955 for allegedly flirting with a white grocery store clerk in Mississippi.
Mamie Till-Mobley (sometimes referred to as Mamie Till-Bradley) was an African American woman who became an iconic figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s following the brutal murder of her young son, Emmett Till. Her courageous decision to have an open-casket funeral for her son, which showed the world the brutality of ...
T wenty days after Emmett Till ’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River, Mamie Till-Mobley sat before a crowded courtroom in Sumner, Mississippi to testify in the trial of the two white ...
The three-part series forms a powerful narrative about the life of teacher and activist Mamie Till-Mobley, whose son Emmett Till was only 14 years old when he was kidnapped, tortured and murdered ...
But the persistent Till won Mamie's heart, and they married on October 14, 1940. Both were 18 years old. Nine months later, their only child, Emmett Louis Till, nicknamed "Bobo," was born at Cook ...
