The Casket That Became a Proclamation
On September 3, 1955, Mamie Till-Bradley stood beside the open casket of her fourteen-year-old son, Emmett, at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ on...
This is a contemporary on grief and justice, drawing on Isaiah 61:1-3.
On September 3, 1955, Mamie Till-Bradley stood beside the open casket of her fourteen-year-old son, Emmett, at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ on Chicago's South Side. Emmett had been kidnapped and murdered in Money, Mississippi, just days earlier. The undertaker urged a closed casket. Mamie refused. "Let the people see what they did to my baby," she said.…
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