![]() ![]() Civil Rights activists were galvanized by the photos, and referred to themselves as “The Emmett Till generation.” And in our own day, just two years ago when someone scrawled the N-word on LeBron James’s fence on his home in Los Angeles, the first thing he thought of was Mamie Till Bradley, and he called a news conference to talk about it, to not cover it up. Parents passed the story on to their children. ![]() The impact of these images lasted for years. ![]() The photo of his body in Jet magazine and The Chicago Defender and the other African American newspapers saddened and enraged African Americans. As it turns out, 100,000 people came to Emmett Till’s funeral. But Mamie Till Bradley decided that it was important to try to let the world see the violent result of white supremacy, to not let people look away. To let the world see the brutalization of your own child and to know that the publicity will continue makes it so hard. We know today the parents, for example, in any of the recent school shootings haven’t been willing to do it. Why is that so meaningful?įirst of all, it was a terribly hard thing to do. In one excerpt you quote Mamie Till Bradley, Emmett Till’s mother, as saying, “Let the people see what they did to my boy,” in essence the title of your book.
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