The Truth That Refused to Stay Buried
In September 1955, Mamie Till-Bradley faced a decision no mother should ever have to make. Her fourteen-year-old son Emmett had been kidnapped and murdered in...
This is a contemporary on grief and justice, drawing on Revelation 6:10.
In September 1955, Mamie Till-Bradley faced a decision no mother should ever have to make. Her fourteen-year-old son Emmett had been kidnapped and murdered in Money, Mississippi, his body so brutalized it was barely recognizable when pulled from the Tallahatchie River. Mississippi authorities urged a quick, sealed burial. But Mamie refused. "Let the people see what they did to my boy," she said.…
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