Emmett’s mother Mamie was born in the small Delta town of Webb, Mississippi. The Delta region encompasses the large, multi-county area of northwestern Mississippi in the watershed of the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers. When Carthan was two years old, her family moved to Argo, Illinois , as part of the Great Migration of rural black families out of the South to the North to escape violence, lack of opportunity and unequal treatment under the law.

They were mostly sharecroppers who lived on land owned by whites. Blacks had essentially been disenfranchised and excluded from voting and the political system since , when the white-dominated legislature passed a new constitution that raised barriers to voter registration. Whites had also passed ordinances establishing racial segregation and Jim Crow laws.

You may be surprised to know that according to a Center for Disease Control and Prevention report, percent of women between the ages of 25 and 29 have never had sex ( for men); percent of women and percent of men between the ages of 30 and 34 are virgins, as are percent of women and percent of men between the ages of

Gary and Almeda Hardwick Image: PA Real Life Get daily news updates directly to your inbox Subscribe Thank you for subscribingWe have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email A year-old woman has married a year-old toyboy just three weeks after meeting him at her son’s funeral. When grieving pensioner Almeda Errell went to pay her last respects at her son’s funeral, the last thing she expected to find was love. Later, on their wedding night, they had sex for the first time.

Gary and Almeda Hardwick are very much in love Image: PA Real Life “I’d been married to my first husband Donald for 43 years, and so when he died in after seven months in hospital from complications with diabetes, I found myself on my own,’ said Almeda.