— Simeon Wright, Emmett Till's cousin “It would appear that the state of Mississippi has decided to maintain white supremacy by murdering children.”— Roy Wilkins, head of the NAACP Open-Casket Funeral Till's body was shipped to Chicago, where his mother opted to have an open-casket ...
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The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act is in tribute to the 14-year-old boy brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955 by two white men without either man facing conviction despite admitting to his murder. “Lynching is a longstanding and uniquely American weapon of racial terror that has for decades...
Anne Moody wrote: "Before Emmett Till's murder, I had known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. But now there was a new fear known to me - the fear of being killed just because I was black. This was the worst of my fears. I knew once I got food, the fear of starving ...
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.