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Gender
Female
Birthday
1921-11-23 (82 years old)
Deathday
2003-01-06
Place of Birth
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Also known As
Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley
Mamie Elizabeth Carthan
Mamie Till
Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley (born Mamie Elizabeth Carthan; November 23, 1921 – January 6, 2003) was an American educator and activist. She was the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy murdered in Mississippi on August 28, 1955, after accusations that he had whistled at a white woman, a grocery store cashier named Carolyn Bryant. For Emmett's funeral, in Chicago, Mamie Till insisted that the casket containing his body be left open, because, in her words, "I wanted the world to see what they did to my baby." Born in Mississippi, she had moved, as a child, with her parents to the Chicago area during the "Great Migration". After her son's ...
2003
as Self (archive footage)
2004
as Self (archive footage)
2003
as In Memory Of
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