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The first trailer for the movie "Till" was released Monday on what would have been Emmett Till's 81st birthday. The biopic, from director Chinonye Chukwu, follows the story of Mamie Till-Mobley ...
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Even if it means sacrificing everything.” Among the pictures he chose to use was one of Till-Mobley standing over her dead son’s casket, tears streaming down her face as she cried in anguish.
The profoundly emotional and cinematic drama Till (2022) is based on the real life of an activist and educator who sought justice following the August 1955 murder of her 14-year-old son Emmett.
The Freedom Center says the exhibit will have stories of Emmett Till, whose life was brutally taken at 14 due to racial violence, and his mother’s bravery in advocating for her son.
Till was a kid from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi when his body was found with a bullet hole in his head, barbed wire wrapped around his neck and a cotton gin fan weighing him down.
In terms of the synopsis, it’s about Mamie, Emmet Till’s mother (played by Danielle Deadwyler), and her pursuit of justice for her son who was abducted, beaten and lynched in 1955 in Mississippi.