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My Sat #breakfast is devoted to Mamie Till-Mobley /
On August 28, 1955 Emmet Till, a 14 years old boy from Chicago visiting his family in Money Mississippi, was abducted, tortured, mutilated, shot in the head and sinked in the Tallahachie River by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam 1/7
On August 28, 1955 Emmet Till, a 14 years old boy from Chicago visiting his family in Money Mississippi, was abducted, tortured, mutilated, shot in the head and sinked in the Tallahachie River by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam 1/7
A brutal racist #lynching execution /
Emmet Till was the only child of Mamie Till-Mobley, a woman of great intelligence and rare courage / Going beyond the privacy of her personal tragedy and grief Mamie demanded for her son a public funeral with an open casket 2/7
Emmet Till was the only child of Mamie Till-Mobley, a woman of great intelligence and rare courage / Going beyond the privacy of her personal tragedy and grief Mamie demanded for her son a public funeral with an open casket 2/7
50.000 people attended the service and the whole world saw the disfigured body of Emmet Till, a fine child murdered by racists / When Rosa Parks was asked why did she decide not to go in the back of the bus, she told that she thought of Emmet Till and simply could not do it 3/7
