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 ...

Moses Wright identifies the body from a ring with the initials L.T. In Chicago, Mamie Till arrives at the Illinois Central Terminal to receive Emmett's casket. She is surrounded by family and ...

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 ...

“Most of us would have seen Emmett’s body and said we wanted to close the casket,” the Illinois Democrat said. “The courage of Mamie Till-Mobley was so extraordinary that she would not allow the ...

One picture that always remained was of Emmett Till. Next to an open casket — in the famous September 15 1955 JET magazine photo — thousands of people, mostly Black, stood in line to view his ...

That Emmett Till’s body even made it to Chicago from Mississippi demonstrates Mamie Till-Mobley’s determination and resilience. She paid nearly a year’s salary to have his body transported by train ...

President Joe Biden last week declared the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National ... due in large part to his mother Mamie Till-Mobley's decision to leave his casket open. Till's body, once ...

Watch: Emmett Till's mother talks about her son's trial Till's mother insisted on an open coffin at the funeral so the public could bear witness to what he endured, and photos of the boy's ...

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.

Emmett Till's death was a key galvanising moment in ... At Till's funeral, his mother Mamie Till Mobley insisted on an open coffin so everyone could see what had been done to him.

Visitors to Let The World See will walk through five stories surrounding Emmett Till's murder, his mother's insistence on an open casket for his funeral, and the continuing fight for social ...

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 ...