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Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley (nacida como Mamie Elizabeth Carthan; 23 de noviembre de 1921 - 6 de enero de 2003) fue una educadora y activista estadounidense.
Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley [a] (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 teenager murdered in Mississippi on August 28, 1955, after accusations that he had whistled at a white grocery store cashier named Carolyn Bryant.
Mamie Till transformó el asesinato de su hijo en la punta de lanza de la lucha de la comunidad negra. Lo hizo convirtiéndose en una madre coraje y tomando una...
A new film dramatizes the life of Mamie Till-Mobley, who forced America to confront the brutality of her son's 1955 murder
Mamie Till se detiene ante el ataúd de su hijo en una funeraria de Chicago. Gracias a su decisión de tener un ataúd abierto, la gente de todo el país pudo ver la brutalidad de su asesinato.
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.
Though justice for Emmett’s murder has never been realized, the legacies of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley remain a source of inspiration. Congress passed a bill in 2022 making lynching a federal hate crime.
