Mamie Till
Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley (born Mamie Elizabeth Carthan; November 23, 1921 – January 6, 2003) was an American educator and activist.[1] She took part in the Civil Rights Movement.[2] She was the mother of Emmett Till, who was killed at the age of 14 years old after allegedly offending a white woman.[3] She insisted a open casket for her son for people to see what they had done to him.
References
- ↑ January 8, Aida Mogos |. New ABC Series Tells Life of Mamie Till-Mobley (in en). WTTW News. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
- ↑ Mitchell, Molli. The heroic true story of Emmett Till's mother Mamie (in en). Newsweek (2022-01-06). Retrieved 2022-02-10.
- ↑ Pérez-Peña, Richard (2017-01-28). "Woman Linked to 1955 Emmett Till Murder Tells Historian Her Claims Were False" (in en-US). The New York Times. . https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/us/emmett-till-lynching-carolyn-bryant-donham.html. Retrieved 2022-02-10.