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Myself with Others: Margo Jefferson

The LRB Podcast

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Mamie Tills Casket Is Open

I went to a very progressive school, but those are the years that you know my little Negro friends and I were going to the working walking into those schools every day. But your peers certainly had to confront different kinds of racism. And it was an extraordinary act on Mamie Tills part to insist that the casket be open. Yeah. Emmet till was in Chicago. He wasn't they weren't always brave people but this time.

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