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Till's murder in Mississippi was the first great symbolic martyrdom of the civil rights era. After playfully whistling at a 21-year-old white woman named Carolyn Bryant, Till was ripped from his bed at 2:30 a.m. His corpse was later fished out of the nearby Tallahatchie River. His killers had severely beaten him, gouged out his eyes and put a hole in his head, through which his distraught mother said she could see daylight. Thousands of people came to his open-casket funeral, the black magazine Jet ran photos of his ruined face, and by the time...
...Money, Miss., thought they had acted alone. Civil rights leaders and the African-American press turned up witnesses--some suggesting that two of Milam's black employees were accomplices. (Both denied it.) Mose Wright often described that fatal female voice, speculating that it must have been Carolyn Bryant's. (She could not be reached for comment.) Till's indomitable mother Mamie Till Mobley and her supporters vainly lobbied the government to reinvestigate. She died last year...
...Chair Carolyn D. Amole ’07 says that the admissions numbers could be a wake up call for Harvard but that she’s felt for a long time that Harvard was more like “a boys school that they let girls into...
...20/20 does not absolve these agencies. The tips and memos they received were not meaningless gossip but important information. We need to put more serious effort and resources into the U.S.'s intelligence infrastructure to prevent future attacks. It's better to do that than launch pre-emptive wars. Carolyn Kahant Ingram...
...20/20 does not absolve these agencies. The tips and memos they received were not meaningless gossip but important information. We need to put more serious effort and resources into the U.S.'s intelligence infrastructure to prevent future attacks. It's better to do that than launch pre-emptive wars. CAROLYN KAHANT Ingram, Texas...