80TH BIRTHDAY REMEMBRANCE FOR EMMETT TILL (JULY 25, 1941 TO AUGUST 28, 1955)

            We, the members of Unit 1012: The VFFDP, wishes Emmett Till a 80^th birthday, he was born on July 25, 1941. We will remember him every year on that date and also on August 28. Let us remember how he lived on this earth.

   

 

Emmett Till in a photograph taken by his mother on Christmas Day 1954, about eight months before his murder. When the photo ran in the Jackson Daily News Till and his mother were given "a profound pathos in the flattering photograph", which "humanized the Tills".

Memorial to mark what would have been Emmett Till's 80th birthday; Chicago teen was lynched in 1955

CHICAGO - If Emmett Till had not been lynched in Mississippi, he might have been celebrating his 80th birthday this weekend.

Till, who was a Chicago native, was tortured and killed for allegedly offending a white woman in Money, Mississippi, in 1955. He was just 14-years-old.

His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, insisted on an open casket funeral so that people would have to confront the brutality of racism. Photos from the funeral were seen by newspaper and magazine readers across the country.

Till was honored on Saturday by Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Chicago) at a ceremony at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip. Till's 80th birthday would have been Sunday, July 25, 2021.

In March, Rush introduced bipartisan legislation to award a posthumous Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley; companion legislation was introduced in the Senate by U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-N.C.).  

INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/memorial-to-mark-what-would-have-been-emmett-tills-80th-birthday-chicago-teen-was-lynched-in-1955

   

Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl whose diary chronicled the Holocaust, and Emmett Till, whose brutal slaying in Mississippi galvanized the Civil Rights Movement, meet for an imaginary conversation in "Anne & Emmett," a play to be staged Monday in Topeka by the Brown Foundation of Topeka. (FILE PHOTOGRAPHS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)

[PHOTO SOURCE: http://cjonline.com/life/2010-05-12/martyred_teens_remembered]

OTHER LINKS:

http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2015/06/anne-and-emmett.html

Anne and Emmett play

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Jun 28, 2019

VIDEO SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4iUtkQ1hzI

https://pjmedia.com/culture/paula-bolyard/2021/06/17/black-evangelical-pastor-pleads-with-christians-to-reject-critical-justice-theories-n1455185

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/thoughts-on-ferguson/