"Emmett Till was a fun-loving prankster ... The family has donated the original glass-topped casket Till was buried in to the Smithsonian Institution's planned National Museum of African American ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new film, Till, documents the decades-long pursuit of justice for the 14-year-old, whose 1955 killing galvanized a generation of activists. This picture of 14-year-old Emmett Till with his ...

Emmett Till Interpretive Center Education ... gathered at the church to mourn the teen after Mamie Till-Mobley decided to hold an open-casket funeral in September 1955 — revealing how badly ...

This plaque at the Tallahatchie River – replaced every now and then every time it's been riddled with bullets – marks the spot where young Emmett ... While the open casket Till's mother ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House unanimously passed a bill Wednesday to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett ... Till and his mother — who had insisted on an open casket ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Emmett Till ... to have an open casket for Emmett's funeral following his murder. The Freedom Center says the exhibit will have stories of Emmett Till, whose life was ...

WASHINGTON — The House unanimously passed a bill Wednesday to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett ... honor Till and his mother — who had insisted on an open casket ...

WASHINGTON — The white woman whose claims of improper advances led to the brutal lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 has ... mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in Chicago and ...