Congress Passes Bill to Give Emmett Till and Mother Mamie Till-Mobley Congressional Gold Medal: ‘It Is Only Right’
The death of young Emmett Till is considered one of the pivotal markers of the civil rights movement. The bravery of the teen’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, in the mid-1950s in exposing what had been done to her son helped jump-start African-Americans’ fight for equality by showing in graphic detail the horror of racial violence in…
