Biographical Narrative: Emmett Till
Biographical Narrative-Emmett Till Who would put their son’s desecrated body on display for all public to see? Mamie Till would. Her son, fourteen year-old Emmett Till, was visiting his relatives in Mississippi where he was kidnapped, murdered, and ditched in the Tallahatchie River by two white men for wolf-whistling at a white woman. These men were tried and found not guilty. Till’s mother, Mamie, fought back with one intention; to bring justice on her son’s death which would later be etched in the American Civil Rights History. To begin, Mamie Till did all she could to gain justice from this atrocious event. Mamie opened the casket to see her son’s body, after she had been told otherwise. She then had an open-casket funeral where