During a recent visit to Milwaukee at Holy Redeemer Church, Scripps News Group Correspondent Andrea Williams sat down with the now 85-year ... mourners pass Emmett Till's casket in Chicago.

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 ...

Mamie Till Bradley's decision to have an open-casket ... legacy of Emmett Till is that Jim Crow racism, as it used to exist from the age of slavery, could no longer exist. Now something has ...

The last living person to see Emmett Till alive celebrated his memory in ... The next time the reverend saw his cousin, it was in a casket. "I was in denial," said Rev. Parker Jr. "I went to ...

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 ...

Emmett's death served as a catalyst for the civil-rights movement, and his mom Mamie Till-Mobley famously insisted on an open-casket funeral because "I wanted the world to see what they did to my ...

It's alive every single day and I think back to Emmett Till's mom actually it's kind of one of the first things I thought of and the reason that she had an open casket is ‘cause she wanted to ...

Cultural preservation organization African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund released $3 million in grants to 33 historic sites, including the childhood home of Emmett Till, the Black ...

(KTAL/KMSS) – A play about Emmett Till that features a local cast will ... Emmett’s mother Mamie had an open-casket funeral for young Emmett because she wanted “the world to see” what ...