Simeon Wright, 67, is Emmett Till's cousin and was ... that her son be displayed in a glass-topped casket, so the world could see his beaten body. Till's murder became a rallying point for the ...

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 ...

CHICAGO -- Of the many people whose lives still cast shadows on our history, one of them is that of a little boy, a 14-year-old named Emmett Till who left ... for it is now possible to meet ...

Mamie Till Bradley's decision to have an open-casket ... legacy of Emmett Till is that Jim Crow racism, as it used to exist from the age of slavery, could no longer exist. Now something has ...

The painting depicted the open-casket funeral of Emmett Till ... and Schutz benefiting financially from the tragedy of Emmett Till. Now, of course, some people might suggest that the fact that ...

A new national monument for Emmett Till and his mother ... His mother insisted on an open casket. An estimated 250,000 mourners came. Rory Doyle for The New York Times Graball Landing Graball ...

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 ...

It's alive every single day and I think back to Emmett Till's mom actually it's kind of one of the first things I thought of and the reason that she had an open casket is ‘cause she wanted to ...

Cultural preservation organization African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund released $3 million in grants to 33 historic sites, including the childhood home of Emmett Till, the Black ...