The brutal abduction and murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till on August 28, 1955, galvanized the emerging civil rights movement.
Emmett Till, the only child of Louis Till and Mamie Till, was born near Chicago, Illinois, on 25th July, 1941. At the age of three he became ill with non paralytic polio. He survived but left him with a speech defect. Friends described him as "brash, prank-loving" who "liked to ...
Mamie Till Mobley died of heart failure in a Chicago hospital in 2003. She was 81 – the age Emmett would be today. No one was ever convicted of the kidnapping, torture and murder of Emmett Till. To watch a trailer for "Till" click on the video player below: "Till"(Official site),...
Mamie Till Mobley, mother of 1955 lynching victim Emmett Till, dies at age 81
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The Emmett Till memorial comes nearly 68 years after Till's death. While on a trip from his home in Chicago visiting family in Mississippi, Till was accused of making inappropriate advances toward a White female grocery clerk. Four days later, he was pulled from his bed, kidnapped and...
Born July 16, 1943 – Bruce Boston, 77.Two novels; a hundred shorter stories inAmazing,Asimov’s,Realms of Fantasy,SF Age,Strange Horizons; poems dusting our skies like strange stars. Seven Rhyslings; Pushcart Prize; first Grand Master of the SF Poetry Ass’n. Has chaired the Nebula Award...
“Today, we send a strong message that violence — and race-based violence, in particular — has no place in America,” Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush said in a statement,according to ABC News. Rush introduced the bill last year and named it after Till, who was from the representative’s 1st...