((( T h e – A w a k e n i n g )))

((( T h e – A w a k e n i n g )))

IN

EVERY POSSIBLE WAY WE SHOULD REMEMBER

the

S L A U G H T E R

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I N N O C E N C E

In

” It Lies Our Humianity “

Originally shared by Heather Shack

Repost: Today,July 25th 2018 would have been the 77th birthday of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old African-American boy from Chicago who was murdered on August 28, 1955, while visiting his aunt, uncle and cousins in Money, Mississippi. Till was abducted, beaten and shot after he allegedly wolf-whistled at a white female store clerk named Carolyn Bryant. His corpse was found three days later in the Tallahatchie River with a bullet hole in his head, barbed wire wrapped around his neck and a cotton-gin fan weighing down his body. Till’s mother, Mamie Till Mobley, held an open-casket funeral for her son in Chicago, and the published images of his brutalized body galvanized the civil rights movement. “I want the whole world to see what they did to my baby”…Mamie Till-Mobley said.

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