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How Emmett Till is being honored in Chicago this weekend for what would be his 80th birthday


How Emmett Till is being honored in Chicago this weekend for what would be his 80th birthday
Emmett Till appears with his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, in 1954.
 
Updated 7/24/2021 10:15 PM
Events in Chicago this weekend as well as new and renewed legislation by a Chicago congressman are marking what would be the 80th birthday of Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager whose 1955 murder helped spark the civil rights movement.
U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush spoke Saturday at Till s gravesite in the city, and recognition of his childhood home as a historic landmark will be made official today with a plaque dedication.
 
Till was born in Chicago July 25, 1941. He left his West Woodlawn home for a train trip to visit family in Money, Mississippi, where he was kidnapped from his uncle s home on Aug. 28, 1955, by white men who alleged he whistled at a white woman at a grocery store. Till s body was recovered on Aug. 31, 1955, barbed wire wrapped around his neck, ....

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Teaching the Civil Rights Movement


Teaching the Civil Rights Movement
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By Professor Afua Cooper, Canada
Teaching the Civil Rights Movement. On the issue of the Montgomery bus boycott and Rosa Parks. Several Black women refused to give up their seats to Whites way before the NAACP chose Parks to engage in that piece of activism.
Take Claudette Colvin for example. She was a teenager when she would not yield her seat. She was taken off the bus, arrested and jailed, 9 months before Parks. But the mainstream CRM refused to use her as a symbol because she was not respectable enough.
Same thing with Mary-Louise Smith. Parks was chosen because she embodied respectable politics, plus she was light-skinned and her features were closer to whiteness. I am taking nothing from Parks, but we have to realized how movements are shaped often by anti-Black/Black racism. The picture of Parks on the bus is staged. The White man there is a journalist, not a White supremacist. ....

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