Simeon Wright, 67, is Emmett Till's cousin and was with him the ... feel about Emmett's mother's decision to hold the funeral with an open casket? Well, an open casket is a common thing in African ...

Emmett Till’s mother declined an offer from the mortician to “touch up” her son’s body, and she made the decision to have an open casket funeral. “I think everybody needed to know what ...

A new national monument for Emmett Till and his mother ... is where Emmett’s funeral was held in September 1955. His mother insisted on an open casket. An estimated 250,000 mourners came.

1955 Emmett Till's body is taken to Chicago's Roberts Temple Church of God for viewing and funeral services. Emmett's mother decides to have an open casket funeral. Thousands of Chicagoans wait in ...

The painting depicted the open-casket funeral of Emmett Till, a black boy who was murdered after a white woman accused him of flirting with her, and critics said it was offensive because it amount ...