americans, was proud and heartened when president joe biden announced the monuments dedicated to emmett till and his mother mamie till. i was particularly happy and took note that he not only honored emmett till, he was lynched, who was killed, beaten, and maimed at 14 years old in mississippi. and in a racial attack that mobilized and galvanized the civil rights movement. but he also honored his mother, who had the courage to not hide it and until the morticians opened the casket, i want the world to see what they did to my son. see his mutilated and beaten body. and jet magazine and the chicago two black news entities that president biden cited, put those pictures out and showed the world. it is people like me till that
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chicago, the site of till s open casket funeral, a decision by his mother who allowed jet magazine to photograph and publish images of her son s body, bringing the world with the face to face of the brutal reality of racism. what you remember the most about that day? i just remember about being kind of. none reverend wheeler park it was till s cousin, his best friend and the last living witnessed a tills abduction. he was in the very next room when a group of white men took till from his family s house. shook to my eyes, shake, and talking to god literally. who walked with a pistol and one hand and a flashlight can another. what was it like there in the house at night after he was taken away? nobody talked to anybody. who s just dark, a move from place to place, to talk to anyone in daylight again. parker still remembers exactly where he sat yang till s funeral. now that church is being
‘What Emmett did, he gave up a lot, but it helped a lot of people. And he still speaks from the grave,’ Emmett Till’s cousin, the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., who witnessed Till being kidnapped, told the Sun-Times.