She didn’t stay silent. She made the world face the truth. When Emmett Till was murdered in 1955, Mamie Till’s decision to hold an open-casket funeral forced the nation to confront the horrors of racism. It was one of the most powerful acts of protest in American history — and yet, this isn’t something most of us were taught in school. This is one of those Black history facts you didn’t know — the kind that shows how one mother’s courage helped spark the civil rights movement. Her story is a rem