The unveiling of the statue coincides with the release this month of “Till,” a movie focusing on his mother's private trauma over her son’s death and her development into a civil rights activist.
The 1955 lynching became a catalyst for the civil rights movement after Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, insisted on an open-casket funeral in Chicago so the world could see the horrors inflicted on her 14-year-old son. Jet magazine published photos of his mutilated body, which had been pulled from the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi.is a jaunty depiction of the living Till in slacks, a dress shirt and a tie with one hand on the brim of a hat.
A Confederate memorial sits on the lawn of the Leflore County Courthouse in Greenwood, Miss., July 14, 2021. It is a short drive from where a statue of Emmett Till is being dedicated on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, at a park in Greenwood. The unveiling of the statue coincides with the release this month of “Till,” a movie focusing on Till-Mobley’s private trauma over her son’s death and her development into a civil rights activist.
Greenwood and Leflore County are both more than 70% Black, and officials have worked for years to bring the Till statue to reality. Democratic state Sen. David Jordan of Greenwood secured $150,000 in state funding and the community commissioned a Utah artist, Matt Glenn, to create the statue.
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