Simeon Wright, 67, is Emmett Till's cousin and was with him the night ... His mother insisted that her son be displayed in a glass-topped casket, so the world could see his beaten body.

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 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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The discovery of Emmett's mutilated body and the decision by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, to hold an open-casket funeral exposed the nation to the brutal realities of racial violence in America.

“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 ...