Let the World See

Mamie Till Mobley demanded and open casket, to let the world see, the bloated, beaten body of her baby boy, who was lynched in Mississippi. His name was Emmett Till, a 14 year old black boy, who came from the state of Illinois. It was 1955, the Jim Crow laws were very much alive. They said he was flirting with a white woman in a store. The facts of the case, the jury chose to ignore. That a child was murdered, his body thrown in the Tallahacie River, a guilty verdict they chose not to deliver. Over 5 days, more that 50,000 people lined up to see, what had been done to Mamie Till Mobley's baby. Mamie's message to the world was that what happens to any of us, was everyone's business. She devoted her new life, her new beginnings, to civil rights, to public remembrance of how Emmett died.