Emmett Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, turned the world's attention to racism in the U.S. when she decided to hold a public, open casket funeral in Chicago.
The deaths of Till and Floyd, in particular, have been"points of clarity" in a much longer storyline, said Amy Yeboah, assistant professor of Africana studies at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
Both moments have been marked by the circulation of horrific images of death, said Brandon Marcell Erby, who studies the rhetorical work of Till-Mobley and recently earned a Ph.D. in English and African American and Diaspora Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Erby said he sees a parallel in Till's open casket and photos of Till's body with the video evidence documenting the deaths of Arbery and Floyd.
Beauchamp said seeing Till's photo drove him to pursue a life of civil rights work, and he wasn't the only one. Speaking in 1986 to Joseph Sinsheimer, a Duke University student who recorded oral histories of the Mississippi civil rights movement,Till’s lynching left a"lasting impression" on her and peers in the"Emmett Till generation." The photo of Till’s"grotesque body" was"emblazoned in everybody’s mind," Ladner said.
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