At the South Side church where Emmett Till’s open casket funeral took place nearly 68 years ago, elected officials and other leaders gathered Tuesday to unveil a temporary sign marking the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Till’s mother, Mamie Till Mobley, insisted on an open casket so the world could see what happened. “In order to come to grips with this tragedy, she saw Emmett as being crucified on the cross ...

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 ...

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 ...