Hi Dropout fans, it's Rebecca, and I want to tell you about a new podcast I think you'll like

for my colleagues at ABC Audio. This season reclaimed tells the story of a civil rights icon who

paved the way for so many to come. Before Rosa Parks, before Malcolm X and Martin Luther King,

Jr., there was Mamie Till Mowbly. When her son Emmett Till was brutally murdered in 1955,

Mamie turned her grief into a battle cry for justice, holding an open casket funeral, and forcing

the world to see what was done to her son's body. Reclaimed, the story of Mamie Till Mowbly

is about a mom who wouldn't let the world forget her son. You're about to hear the trailer for

this season of reclaimed. While you're listening, I hope you'll click the link in our episode

description and follow the show. The first two episodes are out now, and a third is coming next week.

Now here's the trailer. I grew up hearing the name Emmett Till. When I was a child,

my parents and grandparents told me bits and pieces of his story, but I didn't fully understand

what happened to him. Until I turned 14, the same age as Emmett when he was murdered.

That's when I finally saw that picture. It's a photo that sticks with you, it's one that haunts you.

Look at that boy. My sisters and I were afraid of the picture. That picture is stay with me

throughout my life. If they say a picture is worth a thousand words, an image like that is worth a million lives.

Emmett Till lying in a casket brutally beaten, it's an image you can never unsee.

But how did this young boy from Chicago become a rallying cry for the civil rights movement?

His mother made me tell Moby. I want the world to see what is going on in Mississippi

in this great old United States of America. I'm Leah Wright-Rigur. I'm an author and a historian.

And before the march on Washington, before Malcolm X's pilgrimage to Mecca,

before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on that bus, there was Moby. And now it's time to

tell her story. How Moby raised her son with a confidence America wasn't ready for?

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