Rush says Till-Mobley has more than earned the right to be honored with a commemorative stamp
Congressman Bobby L. Rush introduced the Mamie Till-Mobley Memorial Stamp Act on Friday in celebration of Juneteenth.
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Rush continued by drawing parallels between Till-Mobley making her son’s funeral public and the recent bystander video of George Floyd being killed in Minneapolis by police officers.
“In the same way that video footage of George Floyd’s police lynching has triggered the global protests and sweeping police reforms we are witnessing today, Mamie’s decision to show the nation the reality of racial violence inflicted upon her son, Emmett Till, was the spark that lit the flame of a nationwide crusade for justice back then,” he stated.
“Much of the progress achieved by the civil rights movement was made possible by Mamie Till-Mobley’s utterly selfless and inconceivably courageous decision to hold an open-casket funeral for her son in order to show the world what hate and bigotry had done to her beautiful baby boy.”
Congressman Rush declared that Till-Mobley has earned her place in history and the right to be honored on a commemorative stamp.
