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 ...

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

September 3, 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 ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley exhibit premieres ... Mamie's decision to have an open casket for Emmett's funeral following his murder. The Freedom Center says the exhibit ...

A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager ...

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.

That Emmett Till’s body even made it to Chicago from Mississippi demonstrates ... city leaders declared Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ a City of Chicago Landmark in recognition of the ...

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

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.

I can’t imagine a more beautiful creation.” When Emmett Till’s body was returned to Chicago, to the A.A. Rayner & Sons Funeral Home, with services held at the Roberts Temple Church of God ...

US President Joe Biden established a national monument to honour Emmett Till, a black teenager who was lynched in 1955 in Mississippi, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, on Tuesday. The BBC's Sumi ...