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Sep 2, 2015 · Sixty years ago Jet magazine published photos of the disfigured and decomposed body of slain 14-year-old African American Emmett Till, rattling communities across the country and reigniting a...
Jul 12, 2018 · The emotional photos at Emmett’s funeral captured Till-Mobley as she approached her son’s casket. Her body seemed to buckle.
Surrounded by family members and other mourners, Emmett Till's mother Mamie Till stands beside her son's casket at Roberts Temple Church of God in...
Jul 10, 2016 · 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...
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Aug 28, 2020 · Mamie Till is held by her future husband, Gene Mobley, as she sees her son's brutalized body. She insisted on her son's casket being open so that the world "could see what they did to my baby." Photo by David Jackson
The photos of Emmett Till's mutilated body stunned the nation. Emmett Till's great-uncle and cousin remember the night he was taken. Mamie Till's decision to hold an open-casket...
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Aug 31, 2020 · Emmett Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, wanted the world to see “what they did to my baby.” His body looked monstrous, as if the 14-year-old had absorbed every blow of hate delivered by his killers — a photograph that ran in Jet magazine and many other African-American publications, but never appeared in the nation’s mainstream ...
