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Times that TV did Black history justice.

Monday Profile: Oak Hill Academy art teacher goes ‘extra’ mile for role in ABC series Christi Dubois is in her fifth year as high school art teacher at Oak Hill Academy in West Point. Dubois recently traveled to Greenwood and Durant to be a “featured background” actor for the ABC series “Women of the Movement,” a six-part program centered on Emmett Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. Theo DeRosa/Dispatch Staff Christi Dubois barely got to meet her husband. Ushered aboard a train ...

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The same age as a matter of fact. it was horrifying. >> it was my 9/11. it was basically, you know, an act of terror. >> reporter: in 1955, mississippi was ground zero for racial terror in the american south when 14-year-old emmett till arrived from chicago to visit his great uncle, mose wright, in a town called money. he was a big city kid. he wasnt familiar with the dark heart and the social taboos of the jim crow south. >> black people and white people interacted only on a transactional basis...

And something happens inside. according to carolyn bryant, the wife of the proprietor, the woman who ran the store, emmett till, alone in the store with her, comes on to her and whistles at her. four days later, bryants gun-toting husband and brother-in-law went looking for the boy at his uncles house. >> and mose wright begs him to leave him alone, "please dont take him." but they take him, and he never returns. hes thrown into the tallahatchie river with a 70-pound cotton gin fan attached to h...

To sit at a table on the ground floor not that far from where the white press was seated. that was considered a breakthrough. >> reporter: among the journalists covering the trial were "jet" reporter simeon booker and freelance photographer ernest withers. withers photograph of mose wright on the witness stand defiantly pointing to his nephews murderers captured a rare moment, a black man bearing witness to racial terror in a southern courtroom. >> the ernest withers photo of moses wright standi...

Crows nest, they were allowed to sit at a table on the ground floor not that far from where the white press was seated. that was considered a breakthrough. >> reporter: among the journalists covering the trial were "jet" reporter simeon booker and freelance photographer ernest withers. withs photograph of mose wright on the witness stand defiantly pointing to his nephews murderers captured a rare moment, a black man bearing witness to racial terror in a southern courtroom. >> the ernest withers ...

>> we were about the same age, the same age as a matter of fact. it was horrifying. >> it was my 9/11. it was basically, you know, an act of terror. >> reporter: in 1955, mississippi was ground zero for racial terror in the american south when 14-year-old emmett till arrived from chicago to visit his great uncle, mose wright, in a town called money. he was a big city kid. he wasnt familiar with the dark heart and the social taboos of the jim crow south. >> black people and white people interacte...

To sit at a table on the ground floor not that far from where the white press was seated. that was considered a breakthrough. >> reporter: among the journalists covering the trial were "jet" reporter simeon booker and freelance photographer ernest withers. withers photograph of mose wright on the witness stand defiantly pointing to his nephews murderers captured a rare moment, a black man bearing witness to racial terror in a southern courtroom. >> the ernest withers photo of moses wright standi...

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