![]() ![]() "For me, both on my mother's side and father's side of the family, folks came from the South," she said in an interview for "Let the World See." "They moved like most Black folks from the South moved - for opportunity and for safety." ![]() Like Till-Mobley, former first lady Michelle Obama also was a child of the Great Migration. Those roots - and how her background shaped Mamie Till-Mobley as a young single mother into civil rights icon - are explored in the first episode of the three-part documentary series, "Let the World See," which examines the impact of Till-Mobley's fight to bring her son back to Chicago and seek justice for his murder. ![]() ![]() "Emmett's grandmother, Alma Spearman, was instrumental in moving many of our family members from the South to the Chicago area," Ollie Gordon, one of Till's cousins, told ABC News. She went on to describe her mother's home the "the Ellis Island of Chicago" for Black people from Mississippi. Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, wrote in her memoir, the "Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America," that she had heard more than 200,000 Black people had moved to Chicago as a part of the Great Migration, including her own family. ![]()
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