Death of Innocence : The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America (9781588363244) (52 page)

ALSO BY CHRISTOPHER BENSON

Special Interest: A Novel

M
AMIE
T
ILL-
M
OBLEY
died on January 6, 2003, at the age of eighty-one. Following the death of her only child, Emmett Till, she entered Chicago Teachers College in September 1956, graduating cum laude and fifth in her class three and a half years later. In 1973, she earned a master’s degree in administration and supervision at Loyola University. Till-Mobley was a frequent lecturer throughout the country, recalling the struggle for civil rights and urging her listeners to be the best they could be.

A Chicago-based writer and lawyer, C
HRISTOPHER
B
ENSON
has served as features editor for
Ebony
and as Washington editor for
Ebony
and
Jet
. He also contributed to
The Washington Post, The Crisis, Chicago
, and
Reader’s Digest
. Benson is the author of the novel
Special Interest
.