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With the movie 'Till,' Mamie Till-Mobley's quest to educate the world about her son's lynching marches on

  • Written by Brandon M. Erby, Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies, University of Kentucky
With the movie 'Till,' Mamie Till-Mobley's quest to educate the world about her son's lynching marches onTill-Mobley watches the body of her son, Emmett, being lowered into his grave.Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images

After 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped, severely beaten and killed in the Mississippi Delta on Aug. 28, 1955, his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, made the courageous decision to reveal her son’s corpse for all to see.

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