EMMETT TILL AND MAMIE TILL-MOBLEY NATIONAL MONUMENT
EMMETT TILL AND MAMIE TILL-MOBLEY NATIONAL MONUMENTEmmett Till Interpretive Center
Sumner, Mississippi 38957
Phone:
(662) 483-1231Email:

In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till traveled to Money, Mississippi, to visit relatives. He was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered after reportedly whistling at a white woman. His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, insisted on an open-casket funeral near their hometown of Chicago. Her brave decision let the world see the racist violence inflicted upon her son and set the Civil Rights Movement into motion.