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When Mamie Till decided to display the bruised and beaten body of her son, 14-year-old Emmett Till, in an open casket funeral, she poured gasoline on the emerging Civil Rights movement in America. In the first episode of our series delving into the movement, Rhiannon Davies is joined by biographer Devery Anderson and historian Adriane Lentz-Smith to look back at Emmett\u2019s tragic lynching and the horrors of Jim Crow America.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices