Simeon Wright, 67, is Emmett ... body. Till's murder became a rallying point for the civil rights movement, and his family recently donated the casket in which he was buried to the Smithsonian's ...

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 ... would be on display for all to ...

At the casket of Emmett Till, two families of different races ... For 175 years, the Smithsonian has embraced the notion that America’s shared past and present shape its collective future.