Emmett Till’s funeral was 67 years ago Tuesday. But even as time passes, the boy whose racist lynching and murder captivated America is not just a part of history for the 83-year-old Parker.

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's been 68 years since Emmett Till's body was in a Chicago church for his funeral, marking the start of the Civil Rights Movement. Now, Roberts Temple Church Of God In Christ is ...

Emmett Till was 14 years old in 1955 when he was kidnapped and lynched while visiting Mississippi after being accused of whistling at a white woman. The church hosted Till’s funeral. His mother ...

who kept the story of his murder in the public eye and insisted on an open-casket funeral that put Till's mutilated body on display. "I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett ...

At the South Side church where Emmett Till’s open casket funeral took place nearly 68 years ago, elected officials and other leaders gathered Tuesday to unveil a temporary sign marking the ...

“When the photograph from Emmett Till’s funeral ran in Jet magazine, I will never forget how my mother gathered us around the living room coffee table, put the magazine in the middle, pointed ...

They'd just been knocked out." 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 ...

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 ...

Till is a movie about Mamie ... But hers is not the face I have in mind when I think of Emmett’s funeral. It’s everyone else. It’s the way that Chukwu shows us the moment that each mourner ...

Emmett Till’s funeral was 67 years ago Tuesday. But even as time passes, the boy whose racist lynching and murder captivated America is not just a part of history for the 83-year-old Parker.