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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Till’s open-casket memorial service was held in this church in early ... while an estimated 10,000 people stood outside listening to the service over loudspeakers. That Emmett Till’s body even made it ...

While the open casket Till's mother ... "In Mississippi, they're not gonna learn about what happened to Emmett Till," Dickerson said. "It's like the past was being erased." She combats that ...

It has been an important year for the memory and impact of Emmett Till’s life and terrible ... Her insistence on an open casket at her son’s funeral in 1955 showed the public not only the ...

Emmett Till’s mother, as she reckons with the tragic death of her son. Her real-life decision to have an open casket at her son’s funeral was a way of publicising what had happened.

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 ...