amy: that's mamie till mobley, the mother of emmett till.aking in the documentary "the untold story of emmett louis till." last november would have been her 100th birthday. for more, we are joined by two guests in chicago. the reverend wheeler parker jr. is emmett till's cousin and was his best friend. reverend parker was 16 years old when he witnessed emmett till's abduction from his great-uncle's home in money, mississippi. also with us is michelle duster, the great-granddaughter of the pioneering investigative journalist ida b. wells who in 2020 was recognized with a posthumous pulitzer prize for her "outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against african americans during the era of lynching." michelle duster is an author, professor, public historian, and an advocate for racial and gender justice. we welcome you both to democracy now! reverend wheeler parker, jr., to have the two of you here together is historic. i want to go to the reverend as we just listened to your aunt, to mamie till mobley, describ

join mamie till mobley as the heroes of till's story when we remember that mamie till mobley opened her son's casket letting the world see what racism had done to her bike riding boy? it is not difficult to understand the sign building. and the sign replacing of tallahatchie county as a fulfillment of her dream so, what's the lesson here? as i tell my students. at the university of kansas memorials are the new lunch counters? in the 1960s lunch counters were iconic sites of racial agitation and for a moment. they were prized number one. and the fight for civil rights? it was at a lunch counter that bernard lafayette elmira gray and mary ann morgan had detergent. poured down their backs it was at a lunch counter that john lewis and james bevel were nearly suffocated. it was at a lunch counter where john salter was attacked with brass knuckles where joan trumpauer and in moody were attacked with condiments and where memphis norman was beaten. while the jackson police looked on now hear me out on this one. don't you think that kind of like the lunch counters of old memorials have become ne

we know as his mother mamie till mobley has said that he did not die in vain. but if the reverend parker were here tonight, he would remind us that for all we know about till since 1955. we have lost the joyful obscurity of those first 14 years. and so in what follows i'm going to give you a glimpse into the long and dramatic afterlife of emmett till. my talk is not so much a biography of the boy. for that you'd need the reverend parker. as it is a biography of his story because for 66 and a half years people have been telling till story. or ignoring it. or bending it. or selling it. you might know what happened to emmett till in 1955 and if you don't it's fine. i'll bring you up to speed. but you might not know that the way you might not know the ways that his story has been suppressed altered and sold. since 1955 suppressed altered and sold those three key verbs are at the heart and core of the biography. of emmett till's story because time and again. the chance to make a buck has fueled the outright suppression of the story or the alteration of key details.

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