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‘Till’—a vicious murder and the mother who stood up to history - New York Amsterdam News

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When they murdered Emmett Till he was only 14 years old. The year was 1955 and he was kidnapped in the middle of the night and lynched while visiting his family in Mississippi from Chicago.

the director stepped into the telling in a bold way without missing any part of the emotional impact. She didn’t show the young man’s murder on the screen, refusing to dramatize what these white men, Roy Bryant, and John William Milam, did to Emmett.

Emmett’s journey started innocently with his mother sending her son down south to Mississippi, fully expecting him to return safe and sound two weeks later. Instead, he’s returned in a body bag. No mother should ever be burdened with what she was forced to handle.

 

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