10,000 people turned out for young emmett till s funeral in september, 1955, after he had been murdered. his mother, mamie till mobley, she made the decision to allow a photograph of her brutalized son to be taken for jet magazine and the chicago defender newspaper. emmett till s mother made the decision that her son would lie in an open casket at his funeral so everybody could see what had been done to him. again, the national monument that will be designated tomorrow by president biden will be named both for emmett till and for his mother. it s called the emmett till and mamie till mobley national monument. becoming a national monument means technically this is protected land, protected by the federal government, protected and maintained by the national parks service in perpetuity.
When I was a graduate student at the University of Oxford, I met an English mathematician who told me that he had once visited Harvard, my alma mater. While there,
been murdered. his mother, mamie till mobley, she made the decision to allow a photograph of her brutalized son to be taken for jet magazine and the chicago defender newspaper. emmett till s mother made the decision that her son would lie in an open casket at his funeral so everybody could see what had been done to him. again, the national monument that will be designated tomorrow by president biden will be named both for emmett till and for his mother. it s called the emmett till and mamie till mobley national monument. becoming a national monument means technically this is protected land, protected by the federal government, protected and maintained by the national parks service in perpetuity.ic with this particular new national monument, with that site in particular on that river
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