Till-Mobley during an interview outside the courthouse before Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were acquitted for the murder of her son Emmett Till, September 23, 1955
Born
Mamie Elizabeth Carthan
(1921-11-23)November 23, 1921
Webb, Mississippi, U.S.
Died
January 6, 2003(2003-01-06) (aged 81)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Other names
Mamie Till-Bradley
Education
Argo Community High School
Chicago Teacher's College
Loyola University Chicago
Occupations
Educator
activist
Years active
1955–2003
Known for
Mother of Chicago teenager Emmett Till who was murdered in Mississippi in 1955
Spouses
Louis Till
(m. 1940; executed 1945)
Lemorse Mallory
(m. 1946, divorced)
Pink Bradley
(m. 1951, divorced)
Gene Mobley
(m. 1957; died 2000)
Children
Emmett Till
Awards
Congressional Gold Medal
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 Caucasian 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."[2]
Born in Mississippi, Carthan had moved, as a child, with her parents to the Chicago area during the "Great Migration". After her son's murder, Mamie Till became an educator and activist in the Civil Rights Movement.
^"American National Biography Online: Bradley, Mamie Till". www.anb.org. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
^"See the photo Emmett Till's mother wanted you to see — the one that inspired a generation to join the civil rights movement". 28 August 2020.
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