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![]() ![]() Till-Mobley’s choice to have an open casket at her son’s funeral where people could see his mutilated body helped spark the Civil Rights Movement and established her as a change agent. In 1956, after the two men were tried and acquitted of the crime, they admitted to the murder. ![]() Milam pulled the young teenager from his bed and order him into the back of a pickup truck, where they beat him, shot him in the head and threw him into the Tallahatchie River. The unveiling of the memorial happened the same week that Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman who accused Emmett of harassment, died at the age of 88.Īfter Donham’s accusation, her husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother J.W. Till-Mobley’s life was forever changed in August 1955 when her 14-year-old son was abducted, beaten, and murdered after being accused of whistling at a white woman while visiting family in Mississippi. ![]() William Toulios, according to ABC 7 Chicago. “We want to make sure her story is ever-lasting,” said Argo Community High School District 217 Superintendent Dr. ![]()
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