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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 car at the Durant Central Illinois Railroad Depot, Dubois took a seat. Next to her was a man she’d...

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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 wasn't 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, but they were largely two different worlds. you'll stick to your own kind, we'll stick to our own...

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, bryant's gun-toting husband and brother-in-law went looking for the boy at his uncle's house. >> and mose wright begs him to leave him alone, "please don't take him." but they take him, and he never returns. he's thrown into the tallahatchie river with a 70-pound cotton gin fan attached to his neck with a barbed wire. >> reporter: a few days later, a boy fishing in the river discovered...