Lyrical Politics: Reflections on the Role of Grief in Political Life

Posted on 17 December 2018 by L. Ashley Atkins

It’s said that Mamie Till Mobley helped to catalyze the civil rights movement. When people say this what they have in mind, principally, is her decision to present her son’s lynched body in public. Sometimes though her influence is tacit and the catalyst becomes the verdict to acquit the two men accused of Till’s murder.
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