Jesse Jackson Marches In Kokomo
NOP2000070804 - 8 JULY 2000 - KOKOMO, MISSISSIPPI, USA: Mamie Mobley, 78, whose 14-year-old son Emmett Till was killed in Mississippi in 1955, supposedly for whistling at a white woman, speaks July 8, to demonstrators in Kokomo, Miss. At left is Marie Johnson, who believes her 17-year-old son, Raynard, was lynched June 16, because he had been dating a white girl. Behind Mobley is the Rev. Jesse Jackson, demonstration organizer. mc/aj/A.J. Sisco UPI
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