![]() ![]() ![]() There, he found work at the Argo Corn Products Refining Company. In 1922, shortly after her birth, her father, Nash Carthan, moved to Argo, Illinois, near Chicago. After her son's murder, she became an educator and activist in the Civil Rights Movement.īorn Mamie Elizabeth Carthan on Novemin Webb, Mississippi, she was a young child when her family relocated from the Southern United States during the Great Migration, the period when hundred thousands of African-Americans moved to the Northern United States. 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." īorn in Mississippi, she had moved, as a child, with her parents to the Chicago area during the " Great Migration". ![]() 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. Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley (born Mamie Elizabeth Carthan Novem– January 6, 2003) was an American educator and activist. ![]()
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