Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley
By: KG Beck
Mamie's Timeline
1924- Mamie and her family moved to Argo Illinois
1940- Mamie graduates from Argo high school and marries Louis Till
1941- Louis Emmett Till is born to Mamie Carthan and Louis Till
1942- Mamie and Louis Till separate
1943- Louis Till is drafted by the army to fight in world war II
1945- Mamie learns about her ex husband, Louis Till died
1948- Dixiecrats form
1954- Schools were segregated thanks to Brown vs Board of education
1955- Emmett Till was murdered
1956- Look magazine publishes an article called "The Shocking Story of approved killing in Mississippi" written by an Alabama journalist by the name of William Bradford Huie. He offered J.W Milam and Roy Bryant 4,000 dollars to tell how they killed Emmett Till. Milam speaks for the record.
1957- William Bradford writes another article for Look magazine named "What's happened to Emmett Till's killers?' Huie writes that Milam doesn't regret killing Emmett Till but it has caused him trouble. Blacks stop frequenting stores owned by Milam and Bryant families causing them to run out of business, Milam has to weld to make income an the white community ostracizes Milam and Bryant.
1959- Three days before his scheduled trial, Mack Charles Park he was an African American truck driver that was accused of raping a white pregnant woman, he was being held in a county jail cell. A hooded mob took him from the cell beat him, took him to a bridge shot him an killed him weighed his body own with chains an threw him in to the river. Because of the Till case the FBI will investigate and identify 10 white men involved but the the Department of Justice sates there isn't any Federal grounds to make any arrest or press charges.
1980- J.W Milam dies in Mississippi of cancer
1990- Roy Bryant dies in Mississippi of cancer
2003- Mamie Till Mobley dies of heart failure in a Chicago hospital just two weeks before the premiere of The Murder of Emmett Till on PBS
Other events
1921- Sweden abolishes death penalty for all crimes
1924- New York has their first macys day parade
1940- Germany, Italy, and japan sign Tripartite treaty
1941- Germany's jews are no longer to emigrate
1942- Japan lands on Java
1943- Britain bombs Berlin in daylight for first time
1945- The soviet drive Germany troops out of Budapest
1948- Jews call upon The Untied Nations to restore order in Palestine
1954- Brown VS Board of education was passed
1955- Rosa parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat
1956- France recognizes the independence of Morocco
1957- Chuck Berry is playing music that white teenagers listen to he rises to the top of the charts
1959- Alaska becomes the 49th state in the US
1980- Six US diplomats sneak out of Iran using passports given to them by Canada
1990- Iran invades Kuwait
2003- Bush is President
Facts about Mamie till
- Mamie till insisted on a open casket because she wanted the world to see what the white men did to Emmett.
- The NAACP asked mamie to go around the country relating her son’s life, death and the trial of his murderers
- This was the one of the most successful fundraising campaign the NAACP has ever known
- Mamie died in 2003 due to heart failure
- Her autobiography came out the same year she died
-Mamie Till