Mamie Till-Mobley’s courageous journey to testify in the murder trial for her son's killing is captured in the new film “Till.”
She had to be smuggled into Mississippi because of threats against her life. But Till-Mobley was determined to identify the body in court and let the world know what Mississippi had done to her only child. She hoped that even in Mississippi, 12 White people might consider the testimony of a grieving Black mother.
Then they decided to go into the town of Money. Simeon’s 16-year-old brother, Maurice, drove to Bryant’s Grocery & Meat Market. “We were in Money less than 20 minutes,” Simeon WrightAccording to Wright, Emmett “didn’t say anything out of line” in the store. But after they left, Carolyn Bryant walked out toward her car, and Emmett whistled at her.“It scared us half to death,” Wright said. “And we couldn’t get out of town fast enough. We ran to the car.
Wright remembered hearing the men ask, “Is this the right one?” A woman responded, “He is.” Wright believed it was Carolyn Bryant. “And we never saw Emmett alive again,” he said. “Mamie empowered the media to nationalize the lynching,” the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. wrote in the introduction to her memoir. “It was an earthquake and Mamie used the aftershocks of that earthquake to awaken, to transform a people and to redirect our course.”Moses Wright was asked to identify the White men who had kidnapped Emmett from his home. Wright, whom Milam had threatened, did not hesitate. “There he is,” he testified, pointing at Milam. “That’s the man.” He also identified Bryant.
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