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Alum illustrates new book telling the story of Mamie Till-Mobley and her son, Emmett Till

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Janelle Washington uses her paper cut art to help honor two crucial figures in the Civil Rights Movement. By Leila Ugincius, VCUnews Emmett Till was 14, visiting family in Mississippi in 1955, when a white woman accused him of whistling at her. Two of the woman’s relatives brutally beat the youth before shooting him and dumping him in a river. Once they were found not guilty in a jury trial...

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