Emmett Till’s mother declined an offer from the mortician to “touch up” her son’s body, and she made the decision to have an open casket funeral. “I think everybody needed to know what ...

Moses Wright identifies the body from a ring with the initials L.T. In Chicago, Mamie Till arrives at the Illinois Central Terminal to receive Emmett's casket. She is surrounded by family and ...

While the open casket Till's mother ... "In Mississippi, they're not gonna learn about what happened to Emmett Till," Dickerson said. "It's like the past was being erased." She combats that ...

The principals, legislators and investors behind the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in Sumner ... Mamie Till-Mobley did not have to hold an open casket for her son, whose body sparked ...

That Emmett Till’s body even made it to Chicago from Mississippi demonstrates Mamie Till-Mobley’s determination and resilience. She paid nearly a year’s salary to have his body transported by train ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley exhibit premieres ... the World See" after Mamie's decision to have an open casket for Emmett's funeral following his murder.

Nearly 70 years ago, 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally tortured ... was retrieved from the Tallahatchie River, Till-Mobley insisted on an open casket for her late son's funeral, saying ...

Emmett Till’s mother, as she reckons with the tragic death of her son. Her real-life decision to have an open casket at her son’s funeral was a way of publicising what had happened.

A gang of white men brutally tortured and murderd 14-year-old Emmett Till after being accused of whisteling at a white woman. Till's mother held an open casket funeral to make a public statement ...

Top News // 1 decade ago Emmett Till casket moved from Burr Oak The casket of slain civil rights icon Emmett Till has been moved from Burr Oak Cemetery to a police building in Chicago for safe ...