Mamie Till-Mobley insisted on open-casket funeral
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Mamie Till-Mobley was the mother of Emmett Till and a pivotal civil rights figure whose courageous decision to publicly display her son’s brutalized body helped galvanize the modern Civil Rights Movement.
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| Mamie Till-Mobley insisted on open-casket funeral canonical | 1 |
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
civil rights activist
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educator ⓘ human ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
anti-lynching legislation
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racial justice ⓘ |
| birthName | Mamie Elizabeth Carthan ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfFame | response to the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Christopher Benson ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
Mamie Till-Mobley
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surface form:
Mamie Till-Mobley Memorial Foundation
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| commemoratedIn | museums and memorials dedicated to Emmett Till ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1921-11-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2003-01-06 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Chicago Teachers College North
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surface form:
Chicago Teachers College
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| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African Americans
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| familyName | Till-Mobley ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Mamie ⓘ |
| influenced |
American public opinion on racial violence
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growth of the Civil Rights Movement ⓘ |
| keyEvent |
insisted on an open-casket funeral for Emmett Till in Chicago
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traveled to Mississippi to retrieve Emmett Till’s body ⓘ |
| knownFor |
allowing Jet magazine to photograph Emmett Till’s body
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publicly displaying Emmett Till’s brutalized body ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legacy |
catalyst for later civil rights activism
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symbol of maternal courage in the face of racial terror ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage |
Jet magazine
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Chicago Defender ⓘ
surface form:
The Chicago Defender
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| motherOf | Emmett Till ⓘ |
| movement |
American civil rights movement
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surface form:
American Civil Rights Movement
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| notableFor |
galvanizing the modern Civil Rights Movement
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insisting on an open-casket funeral for Emmett Till ⓘ |
| notableWork | Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil rights leader
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teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Webb, Mississippi, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfKeyEvent | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| spouse |
Gene Mobley
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Louis Till ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America ⓘ |
| yearOfKeyEvent | 1955 ⓘ |
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