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  1. Oct 13, 2022 · Mamie Till-Mobley grieves during the funeral of her only son, Emmett Till. Abbott Sengstacke Family Papers / Robert Abbott Sengstacke / Getty Images The violence inflicted on Emmett was...

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  2. The grave of Mamie Till Mobley, mother of Emmett Till, and her husband Gene Mobley are shown near the entrance of Burr Oak Cemetery on March 22, 2021...

  3. Oct 5, 2022 · Mississippi police wanted to bury Emmett Till’s body right away. But Mamie Till-Mobley was determined to bring her son home. She contacted a Chicago funeral director to help her make arrangements, and once she received his sealed casket, she convinced an undertaker to let her look inside.

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  4. Mamie granted a photographer from the national Black magazine Jet permission to photograph Emmett’s body and publish the pictures. Although every major newspaper in the country covered Emmett’s funeral, only Jet and a few other Black publications printed photographs of his body.

  5. Jul 24, 2023 · In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till traveled to Money, Mississippi, to visit relatives. He was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered after reportedly whistling at a white woman. His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, insisted on an open-casket funeral near their hometown of Chicago.

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  8. Mamie Till-Mobley was the mother of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago who was kidnapped and lynched in Mississippi in 1955. Her brave decision to allow a public viewing and Jet, an African American magazine, to feature photographs of her son’s brutalized body, turned private grief into national tragedy, and galvanized the Modern Civil ...

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