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Mamie's Birth
November 23 1921, Mamie Carthan is birthed in a small town near Webb, Mississippi by John and Alma Carthan. -
Mamie Graduates and Gets Married
In 1940 in June Mamie graduates from Argo Community High School. On October 14 Mamie married 18-years-old Louis Till. -
Emmett/BoBo id Born
In Chicago's Cook County Hospital Emmett Till is birthed by Mamie and Emmett Till. -
Separation
In 1942 Louis and Mamie Till separated after it was found out that Louis was unfaithful. -
Army or Prison
In 1943 after violated his restriction order multiple times he was given the decision to go to prison or go to the Army to fight World War II. He chose the Army and was soon drafted. -
Louis's Mystery Death
In 1945 Mamie learns that Louis Till has died while in Europe for "meaningful misconduct" and was told nothing else. This matter came up later in her life during the trial for her son's murder. Out of the few belongings given to her, she was given a signet ring inscribed with his initials, L.T. -
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The Mississippi Trip
August 19: Mamie gives Emmett his dad's ring.
August 21: Emmett Till arrives in Money, Mississippi, and goes to stay at the home of his great uncle Moses Wright.
August 24: Emmett joins a group of teenagers to go to Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market for refreshments. Emmett went into the store to buy bubble gum. Witnesses outside the store later say they heard Emmett "Wolf Whistle at Carolyn Bryant. -
Continuation of Emmett's Death
September 21: During the trial Moses Wright, Emmett Till's great uncle, accuses two white men in court.
August 28: About 2:30 a.m, Roy Bryant, Carolyn's husband, and half brother J.W. Milam, kidnap Emmett Till from Moses Wright's home. They torture Emmett by beating him with their pistols, gouge out his eye, force him to carry a 75-pound cotton-gin fan and shoot him in the head, then wrap barbed wire around his neck, attach it to the fan and dumped his body into the Tallahatchie River. -
Mississippi Trip
August 29: J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant are arrested on kidnapping charges in LeFlore County in suspicion with Till's disappearance.
August 31: Three days later, Emmett Till's body discovered in Mississippi's Tallahatchie River. Moses Wright identifies the body because of the ring that was once his father's.
September 6: Emmett Till is buried at Burr Oak Cemetery. Where a open-cast is held and tens of thousands of people come to mourn with Mamie. -
Milam and Bryant are Acquitted
September 23: Milam and Bryant are acquitted of murdering Emmett Till after the jury discusses this for only 67 minutes.
Moses Wright and Willie Reed after testifying had to leave Mississippi and are smuggled to Chicago. -
J.W
December, 1980 J. W. Milam died in Mississippi of cancer. -
Roy Bryant's Death
September in 1990 Roy Bryant died in Mississippi of cancer. -
Mamie's Death
At age 81 Mamie Till-Mobley dies of heart failure, two weeks before The Murder of Emmett Till premieres on PBS. Her Memoir was released in 2003.
