While Bryant Donham was never charged for her involvement in Till’s death, the Justice Department continued to investigate the case and consider the potential for an arrest as recently as 2021.
Till-Mobley watches the body of her son, Emmett, being lowered into his grave.
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Many Black audiences are justifiably weary of works about their community told from white perspectives. But authorship isn’t always black and white.
These people are protesting because they are tired, because they are worn out, because they are exhausted by violence against themselves and their communities.
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Scholars continue to debate what, exactly, happened to Emmett Till the morning of his murder. But that hasn’t stopped a poor Mississippi community from trying to profit off one version of the story.
A 1950s photograph of Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till Mobley, during a visit to Jackson, Miss.
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