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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“And when Emmett Till’s mother made the decision to have an open-casket funeral, so that the world could see her son, it was a pivotal moment that galvanized the American civil rights movemen ...

When his body was returned to Chicago, Mamie Till, Emmett’s mother, insisted on an open casket funeral, despite the grotesque state of her son’s body. Photographs of his body would become some ...

Emmett Till left his mother's house on Chicago's ... Till Mobley insisted that his body be displayed in an open casket as it looked when it was pulled from a river, to show the world what racism ...

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.

“She had an open casket funeral so the world could see ... I left the house at night was ‘Don’t let what happened to Emmett Till happen to you,’ but it wasn’t until two weeks before ...

When the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. thinks of Emmett Till, he sees him running toward ... When Emmett’s body was found and the pivotal open-casket funeral took place at Bronzeville’s Roberts ...