Born in Mississippi, as a child she had moved with her parents to the Chicago area during the "Great Migration". After her son's murder she became an educator and activist in the Civil Rights Movement.
What happened to Mamie Till?
But in a sad turn of events, just two weeks before the national television premiere of The Murder of Emmett Till, Mamie Till Mobley died of heart failure in a Chicago hospital. She was 81 years old.