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Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement holiday The contributing essayists are notA Caldecott honor winning picture book biography of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement. Mamie Till Mobley is the mother of Emmett Till, the 14 year old boy who was brutally murdered while visiting the South in 1955. His death became a rallying point for the civil rights movement, but few know that it was his mother who was the catalyst for bringing his name to