Emmett Till was 14 years old ... The church hosted Till’s funeral. His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, decided to keep the casket open to “Let the people see what they did to my boy.” ...

Emmett Till’s funeral was 67 years ago Tuesday ... When Emmett’s body was found and the pivotal open-casket funeral took place at Bronzeville’s Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's been 68 years since Emmett Till's body was in a Chicago church for his funeral, marking the ... and remember the power of an open casket. "I would like to welcome you to ...

Some 50,000 people, nearly all of them Black, turned out for Emmett Till's funeral. Mamie Till ordered the funeral director to place her son in an open casket, and permitted the shocking ...

which hosted the open casket funeral for Emmett Till. Plans are underway to restore that church and honor the Tills' legacy.

Till’s open-casket memorial service was held in this church in ... Chicago church that hosted Emmett Till’s funeral That Till’s body even made it to Chicago from Mississippi demonstrates Mobley-Till’s ...

Nearly 70 years ago, Mamie Till-Mobley held an open casket funeral for her son, Emmett Till, at a church on the South Side of Chicago. The sight of his 14-year-old body, bloated and disfigured ...

It was her decision, after all, to hold an open-casket funeral and invite reporters to photograph Emmett's body, to show the world what racist violence looked like. Till captures how Mamie arrived ...

Emmett Till was born on July 25 ... Till’s mother’s decision to hold an open-casket funeral, showcasing her son’s mutilated body, helped spur the American Civil Rights Movement.

Mamie Till-Mobley weeps at her son Emmett Till's funeral on Sept. 6, 1955, in Chicago. Till-Mobley insisted on an open-casket funeral, so the whole world could see what Mississippi did to her son.

The basis for its story is the brutal 1955 lynching of the teenager Emmett Till in Money ... who took the vital step of arranging an open casket funeral for her son and wielded the power of ...

But Mamie's decision to hold an open-casket funeral for her son ... "Without Mamie Till-Mobley, the world wouldn't know who Emmett Till was," Chukwu says. "She wanted the world to witness what ...