Both Till and Women Of The Movement tell the story of Mamie Till Mobley, Emmett Till’s mother, as she reckons with the tragic death of her son. Her real-life decision to have an open casket at ...

Mamie Till learns that Private Louis Till has died while in Europe. She is not given a full report of her ex-husband's death. One of his few possessions received by Mamie is a signet ring ...

“I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till,” she said. Mamie's decision would make her son's death a touchstone for a generation. At a church on the South Side of ...