I was struck by the smug look on her face after her husband was found not guilty in news clips in the first tape of “Eyes on the Prize,” a documentary series on the Civil Rights Movement. May she rot in hell.

I’m also deeply moved by this poem about her and Till’s mother’s lives after the murder by Gwendolyn Brooks:

https://poetrysociety.org/poems-essays/saying-his-name-1/saying-his-name

Thank you for writing this.