Mamie Till-Mobley

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American author civil rights activist educator human

Mamie Till-Mobley was an American educator and civil rights activist whose decision to publicize the brutal lynching of her son Emmett Till helped galvanize the modern Civil Rights Movement.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Mamie Till-Mobley canonical	2
Mamie Carthan Till	1
Mamie Till	1
Mamie Till-Mobley Memorial Foundation	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American ⓘ author ⓘ civil rights activist ⓘ educator ⓘ human ⓘ
advocatedFor	anti-lynching legislation ⓘ education for African American youth ⓘ racial justice ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Mamie Till-Mobley ⓘ surface form: Mamie Carthan Till Mamie Till-Mobley ⓘ surface form: Mamie Till
birthName	Mamie Elizabeth Carthan ⓘ
burialPlace	Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois, United States ⓘ
causeOfDeath	heart failure ⓘ
child	Murder of Emmett Till ⓘ surface form: Emmett Till
coAuthor	Christopher Benson ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1921-11-23 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	2003-01-06 ⓘ
educatedAt	Argo Community High School ⓘ Chicago Teachers College North ⓘ surface form: Chicago Teachers College Loyola University Chicago ⓘ
era	20th century ⓘ 21st century ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Black Americans ⓘ surface form: African American
fieldOfWork	civil rights ⓘ education ⓘ
gender	female ⓘ
inspired	civil rights activism in the late 1950s and 1960s ⓘ increased national attention to racial violence in the United States ⓘ
knownFor	galvanizing the modern Civil Rights Movement ⓘ insisting on an open-casket funeral for Emmett Till ⓘ publicizing the lynching of her son Emmett Till in 1955 ⓘ
movement	American civil rights movement ⓘ surface form: American Civil Rights Movement
name	Mamie Till-Mobley self-link ⓘ
notableEvent	decision to allow Jet magazine to publish photographs of Emmett Till’s mutilated body ⓘ
notableWork	Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America ⓘ
occupation	school administrator ⓘ teacher ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Webb, Mississippi, United States ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ
religion	Christianity ⓘ
residence	Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ
spouse	Gene Mobley ⓘ Louis Till ⓘ
subjectOf	Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America ⓘ various documentaries about Emmett Till ⓘ
taughtSubject	elementary education ⓘ special education ⓘ
workedAt	Chicago Public Schools ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Murder of Emmett Till → mother → Mamie Till-Mobley ⓘ

subject surface form: Emmett Till

Mamie Till-Mobley → name → Mamie Till-Mobley self-link ⓘ

Mamie Till-Mobley → alsoKnownAs → Mamie Till-Mobley ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mamie Till

Mamie Till-Mobley → alsoKnownAs → Mamie Till-Mobley ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mamie Carthan Till

Mamie Till-Mobley insisted on open-casket funeral → commemoratedBy → Mamie Till-Mobley ⓘ

subject surface form: Mamie Till-Mobley

this entity surface form: Mamie Till-Mobley Memorial Foundation