PDF The Satapatha-Brahmana; According to the Text of the Madhyandina School Volume 2 by Julius Eggeling in History

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There are many heroes of the civil rights movement—men and women we can look to for inspiration. Each has a unique story; a path that led to a role as leader or activist. Death of Innocence is the heartbreaking and ultimately inspiring story of one such hero: Mamie Till-Mobley; the mother of Emmett Till—an innocent fourteen-year-old African-American boy who was in the wrong place at the wrong time; and who paid for it with his life. His outraged mother’s actions galvanized the civil rights movement; leaving an indelible mark on American racial consciousness. Mamie Carthan was an ordinary African-American woman growing up in 1930s Chicago; living under the strong; steady influence of her mother’s care. She fell in love with and married Louis Till; and while the marriage didn’t last; they did have a beautiful baby boy; Emmett. In August 1955; Emmett was visiting family in Mississippi when he was kidnapped from his bed in the middle of the night by two white men and brutally murdered. His crime: allegedly whistling at a white woman in a convenience store. His mother began her career of activism when she insisted on an open-casket viewing of her son’s gruesomely disfigured body. More than a hundred thousand people attended the service. The trial of J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant; accused of kidnapping and murdering Emmett (the two were eventually acquitted of the crime); was considered the first full-scale media event of the civil rights movement. What followed altered the course of this country’s history; and it was all set in motion by the sheer will; determination; and courage of Mamie Till-Mobley—a woman who would pull herself back from the brink of suicide to become a teacher and inspire hundreds of black children throughout the country. Mamie Till-Mobley; who died in 2003 just as she completed this memoir; has honored us with her full testimony: “I focused on my son while I considered this book. . . . The result is in your hands. . . . I am experienced; but not cynical. . . . I am hopeful that we all can be better than we are. I’ve been brokenhearted; but I still maintain an oversized capacity for love.” Death of Innocence is an essential document in the annals of American civil rights history; and a painful yet beautiful account of a mother’s ability to transform tragedy into boundless courage and hope.