Hi everyone, it's Julia. And I want to tell you about a new podcast I think you'll like for

my friends at ABC Audio. Re-claimed 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 Mobley. 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. Re-claimed, the story of Mamie Till

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

for this season of Re-claimed. While you're listening, I hope you'll click the link in our episode

description and follow the show or search for Re-claimed in your podcast app and follow the series

that way. The first two episodes are out now and a third is coming next week. 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

of 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 Wrightriger. 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 Mamy. And now it's time to tell

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