
Memorial to Emmett Till's mother dedicated outside Chicago-area school she attended
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A memorial honoring Mamie Till-Mobley, mother of lynched teenager and Civil Rights martyr Emmett Till, was unveiled outside her old high school near Chicago.
Emmett Till’s 1955 lynching in Mississippi and his mother’s insistence on an open-casket funeral for the 14-year-old served as a catalyst for civil rights. Till-Mobley was a civil rights activist for the rest of her life.
The memorial opening to the public Saturday outside Argo Community High School in Summit, Illinois includes a bronze statue of Till-Mobley with hands spread wide and standing behind a podium, which bears bronze reliefs of her son, the Mississippi barn where he was killed and the Chicago funeral home where thousands of mourners gathered.
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