CHICAGO (WLS) — A scholarship honoring Mamie Till-Mobley has been established at Loyola University Chicago.
She was the mother of Emmett Till, the Black teenager murdered while visiting family in Mississippi.
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His killing played a role in the civil rights movement.
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Mamie Till-Mobley was a 1971 graduate of Loyola’s graduate school of education. The scholarship is sponsored by Loyola’s Black Alumni Board.
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