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Memorial unveiled to honor civil rights icon Mamie Till-Mobley

  • A memorial was dedicated outside Mamie Till-Mobley's suburban Chicago high school where it includes a bronze statue of her standing behind a podium with reliefs of her son and locations tied to his death.
  • Till-Mobley became a civil rights activist after her son Emmett's lynching in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14.
  • No one has been convicted for Emmett Till's murder.
  • The memorial and an annual scholarship were funded by Till-Mobley's high school and a local education group.
  • Till-Mobley's accuser, Carolyn Bryant Donham, died this week at 88.
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