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A Caldecott-honor winning picture book biography of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement.
Mamie Till-Mobley is the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy who was brutally murdered while visiting the South in 1955. His death became a rallying point for the civil rights movement, but few know that it was his mother who was the catalyst for bringing his name to the forefront of history.
In Choosing Brave , Angela Joy and Janelle Washington offer a testament to the power of love, the bond of motherhood, and one woman's unwavering advocacy for justice. It is a poised, moving work about a woman who refocused her unimaginable grief into action for the greater good. Mamie fearlessly refused to allow America to turn away from what happened to her only child. She turned pain into change that ensured her son's life mattered.
Timely, powerful, and beautifully told, this thorough and moving story has been masterfully crafted to be both comprehensive and suitable for younger readers.
Reviews (3)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 2--6--The heartbreaking story of Emmett Till is shared with great emotional depth. Using cut-paper collage and lyrical storytelling, Joy and Washington revive Mamie Till-Mobley's story. The brilliant, loving mother of Emmett was a child of the Great Migration. Mamie and her family moved up from Mississippi to Argo, a Chicago suburb, where the studious girl worked hard to graduate at the top of her class. She married Louis Till, and after a strenuous birth, their only son arrived. Though doctors predicted he would have severe cognitive and motor delays, Mamie insisted on bringing Emmett home. Louis turned violent, and Mamie refused to tolerate the behavior. Now with just his mother and grandmother, Emmett grew into a kind boy who played joyfully in the streets of Argo until he fell ill with polio. The disease left him with a stutter, which his ingenious mother helped him circumvent using a clever trick of stopping when he was stuck on a word and whistling to calm him before he continued speaking. Unfortunately, like Mamie before them, readers are powerless to stop Emmett's fateful trip to Mississippi. They cannot stop Emmett's alleged whistle, the white woman's lie, the white kidnappers' murder, or the jury's unjust verdict. The symbolic red and blue colors in the collage, weaving Mamie and Emmett's lives and stories together, creates a beautiful artistic tapestry. With rich language and a wealth of knowledge in the back matter, this text has depth and usefulness for a broad audience. VERDICT An essential purchase for all libraries.--Abby Bussen
Publisher's Weekly Review
In an extraordinary volume, Joy's cadenced prose and Washington's dimensional cut-paper artwork portray Mamie Till-Mobley's (1921--2003) life and efforts seeking justice for the brutal murder of her son Emmett Till (1941--1955). After introducing Till's death, lines flash back to Till-Mobley's childhood in small-town Illinois. "The first African American to graduate at the top of her class," she later experiences an abusive marriage and nurses young Till through polio. Both move for new opportunity in Chicago, but Till misses family and space. Despite "an ache deep down in her soul," she sends him to visit relatives in Mississippi, and his lynching there, and Till-Mobley's pursuit of justice, has a galvanizing effect on the civil rights movement. Contextualizing endnotes conclude this necessary title whose reiterative refrain characterizes Till-Mobley's actions as "the harder thing" and "the braver thing/ that changed everything." Ages 8--12. (Sept.)
Booklist Review
When Mamie Till-Mobley was a child in the 1920s, her family left Mississippi for the relative freedom of the Chicago area. Soon after high school, she married and had a son, Emmett. His father left the family, but she surrounded her child with love and, when he contracted polio, nursed him back to health. In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett left Chicago to visit relatives in Mississippi, where he was brutally murdered. His body, "bruised / scarred / swollen," was recovered from the river and his mother bravely insisted that the sheriff send his remains home. His body was displayed in an open coffin. Later, after sitting in the courtroom while Emmett's murderers were found "not guilty," she courageously began speaking out against racist violence in lectures credited with significantly moving the twentieth-century civil rights movement forward. Joy's text, written in free verse, tells of Emmett Till's death within the context of his mother's love and her determination to work for racial justice. The powerful, distinctive artwork was cut from sheets of black paper to create distinctive portrayals of people and their surroundings, with layers of tissue paper added to bring color, warmth, and coherence to the pages. A moving, memorable picture book.