Mamie Till
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title:
Mamie Till
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Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley 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. For Emmett's funeral in Chicago, Mamie Till insisted that the coffin containing his body be left open, because, in her words, "I wanted the world to see what they did to my baby." Born in Mississippi, Carthan and her family moved to th
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American schoolteacher and mother of Emmett Till
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Till
date created:
2006-08-25T12:53:16Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T19:42:33Z
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