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 ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., the cousin of Emmett Till, told a group in Lincoln it's important to keep telling stories that show ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was with his cousin and best friend Emmett Till the night he was murdered and is still haunted by the ...

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 ...

Anniversary of Till’s lynching coincides with launching of local foundation For Deborah Watts, a family tragedy is also a horrific part of American history. The Plymouth resident for almost ...

Nearly 70 years ago, 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally tortured ... Till-Mobley insisted on an open casket for her late son's funeral, saying “Let the world see what they did to my boy.” ...

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 ...

Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, was also honored posthumously. She died in 2003. Her insistence on an open casket at her son’s funeral in 1955 showed the public not only the brutality ...

As President Joe Biden signed a proclamation on Tuesday establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, it marked the fulfillment of a promise Till's ...