The brutal abduction and murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till on August 28, 1955, galvanized the emerging civil rights movement.
of Emmett Till Emmett Till was an unfortunate example of what the world was like decades ago. The sad news is that such cases had to actually exist in order for the world to trigger a change. Emmett Till was lynched by a few white men after a white lady claimed that he whistled at ...
Another reason the work wasn’t taken seriously was that it eluded concepts of authorship: the stories were anonymous and composed at different periods in different places. The architecture of the frame story – Scheherazade telling stories to the sultan every night till dawn to save her life –...
Mamie Till-Mobley was an American educator and activist who helped galvanize the emerging civil rights movement after her son, Emmett Till, was murdered in 1955 for allegedly flirting with a white grocery store clerk in Mississippi. Mamie Carthan was bor