Saturday, December 31, 2022

New ‘Till’ film misses real story of fight to overturn Jim Crow – The Militant

If you want to learn about the powerful movement that ended the brutal Jim Crow system of segregation in the South, this movie misses the mark. It focuses on Mamie Till, whose 14-year-old son Emmett was cold bloodedly lynched while visiting relatives in Mississippi in 1955. But it shows very little of how Mamie Till decided to step up and lead years of protests against the acquittal of the two racists who lynched her son, and how it helped build the civil rights movement....

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New ‘Till’ film misses real story of fight to overturn Jim Crow – The Militant

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