Joe Redington. Joe Redington, Senior (February 1, 1917 – June 24, 1999) was an American dog musher and kennel owner, who is best known as the "Father of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race", a long distance sled dog race run annually from the Anchorage area to Nome, Alaska.
Mamie Till was embarrassed her son was murdered and withdrew from public view. Mamie Till felt that she needed to share what happened to her son to show how bad racism was in the South.
