The award is the highest civilian honor given by Congress. Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley will be posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal after a unanimous vote from the ...

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 made up her mind to travel deep ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-biography-mamie-till-mobley/ From left: Walter Reed, Willie Reed, Mrs. Mamie Bradley, mother of Emmett ...

What stops it is all of us, not a few.” The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will include three federally protected sites spanning Illinois and Mississippi central to the ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with executive director Patrick Weems on the announcement of the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument. Emmett Till would have turned 82 today.

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establishing the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument in Chicago and Mississippi. Tuesday would have been Emmett Till’s 82nd birthday. Members of Illinois’ congressional ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The National Park Service (NPS) has awarded a $75,000 grant to the Emmett Till Interpretive Center. The grant is part of the Underrepresented Communities Grant Program.

Danielle Deadwyler vividly recalls what went through her mind when she learned that she had landed the lead role in “Till,” a new film centered on civil rights advocate Mamie Till-Mobley and ...

Mamie Till-Mobley, the Congressional Gold Medal. The resolution, titled the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2021, was introduced by Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and ...

The determination of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, to show the world what had been done to her son became a catalyst that launched the modern Civil Rights Movement. The murderers, who later admitted ...