“We will bear witness to the hatred that has been embedded in our DNA ... Mamie Till, insists on an open casket. Thousands of people wait in line to see the body, and pictures of it are seen ...

Back at her mother’s house, the family added a second phone line. Mamie Till-Mobley weeps as the body ... “Mamie opened that casket and opened our eyes,” says Christopher Benson, the ...

This site is free thanks to our community of supporters ... They put their bodies on the line. Opinion Newsletter When CNN and Time and the rest say that the Till photos started the civil rights ...

Twenty-four days after her son’s swollen body was found in the Tallahatchie River, tied to a cotton-gin fan and bound in barbed wire, Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley ... out of line” in the ...