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Tens of thousands filed past Till’s remains, but it was the publication of the searing image photographed by David Jackson and first published in Jet magazine, with a stoic Mamie gazing at her...
Sep 7, 2014 · Many historians say that it was seeing the photos of Emmett Till’s mutilated body in THIS ISSUE (Sept 15, 1955) of Jet Magazine that sparked the Civil Rights Movement.
Oct 19, 2022 · Photographers stood on tables to grab pictures of the victim’s mother, seated at the card table set up for Booker, Hicks, et al., and bloated Sheriff Strider standing next to her, barely keeping his breakfast down, as the photos of this instant show, handing her the obligatory subpoena to testify.
Aug 28, 2005 · Gus Savage, editor and publisher of The American Negro: A Magazine of Protest, said he had been the first to print a photograph of Emmett Till's body, taken by a schoolteacher named Lester...
Jul 12, 2018 · This image shows Emmett Till's mangled face after his body was shipped from Mississippi to Chicago for burial in 1955.
Jet magazine and other Black media publications published the gruesome photos of Emmett Till’s barely recognizable body. A few weeks later, the nation’s eyes turned to the Tallahatchie Courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi.
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Jul 22, 2021 · Emmett Till looked just as he did when they put him in the grave. The FBI photos taken in 2005 looked almost exactly like the famous Jet pictures that helped spark the civil-rights movement.
