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Death of innocence mamie till5/31/2023 “Oh, mama,” she recalled him saying, “it can’t be that bad.” Still, he imagined she must be exaggerating.Įmmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, at home in ChicagoĬhicago Tribune file photo / Tribune News Service via Getty Images Her son listened to her precautions and agreed to follow them. “Everything Emmett had come to believe all his life had to be unlearned as he prepared for the trip,” Mamie later wrote in her autobiography, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America. If a white woman was walking toward him, he should lower his head and never look her in the eye. For instance: He shouldn’t speak to white people unless spoken to. He would need to follow them at all times. Mississippi had certain unspoken rules, she told him, rules that didn’t exist in Chicago, where he’d grown up. He wanted to go, too.Įventually, Mamie relented, but her permission came with caveats. His cousins would soon be heading south to spend a week with their uncle. It was the summer of 1955, and Emmett-she called him Bobo-had just turned 14. Mamie Till-Mobley never wanted her son to go to Money, Mississippi.
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