Emmett Till was 14 years old in 1955 when he was ... His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, decided to keep the casket open to “Let the people see what they did to my boy.” From a lectern inside ...

Some 50,000 people, nearly all of them Black, turned out for Emmett Till's funeral. Mamie Till ordered the funeral director to place her son in an open casket, and permitted the shocking ...

It was her decision, after all, to hold an open-casket funeral and invite reporters to photograph Emmett's body, to show the world what racist violence looked like. Till captures how Mamie arrived ...

Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley will ... and her movement-catalyzing decision to have photos of Till’s open casket published in Jet magazine, Till-Mobley went on to become an ...

To the editor: Emmett Till’s mother required an open casket for her son, so the world could see his mutilated body. This act changed the United States forever. The lesson from this horrific ...

"The world’s shock of Emmett Till’s open casket photograph is a parallel to the world’s shock of the George Floyd video. It’s important to understand our history as we look to heal and grow." ...

But he was not so irreverent as a tenth grader that he could see an image of Emmett Till’s open casket and not find it arresting. The story of the 14-year-old Black boy who was lynched in ...

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