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Darling, you have not died in vain. Your life has been sacrificed for something.
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On why she insisted on an open casket at her son's funeral:
So all the world can see what they did to my boy.
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Born:
November 23, 1921
Died:
January 6, 2003
(aged 81)
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Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley was the mother of Emmett Till, who was murdered in Mississippi on August 28, 1955, at the age of 14, after being accused for flirting with a white cashier woman at the grocery store.
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