![]() ![]() Each has a unique story, a path that led to a role as leader or activist. There are many heroes of the civil rights movement-men and women we can look to for inspiration. Benson is the author of the novel Special Interest. He also contributed to The Washington Post, The Crisis, Chicago, and Reader's Digest. ![]() Till-Mobley was a frequent lecturer throughout the country, recalling the struggle for civil rights and urging her listeners to be the best they could be.A Chicago-based writer and lawyer, Christopher Benson has served as features editor for Ebony and as Washington editor for Ebony and Jet. ![]() In 1973, she earned a master's degree in administration and supervision at Loyola University. Following the death of her only child, Emmett Till, she entered Chicago Teachers College in 1956, graduating cum laude and fifth in her class three and a half years later. Mamie Till-Mobley died on January 6, 2003, at the age of eighty-one. The heart-wrenching, inspiring, and award-winning memoir by Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, an innocent 14-year-old boy who was in the wrong place at the wrong time and paid for it with his life. ![]()
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