Simeon Wright, 67, is Emmett ... hope for the casket? Well, I hope, I know one thing, it's going to speak louder than pictures, books or films because this casket is the very image of what has ...

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 ...

A new national monument for Emmett ... Till-Mobley, will consist of three federally protected sites in Illinois and Mississippi. Here are the locations of the sites → Scott Olson/Getty Images ...

Kelley, professor of History and Africana Studies and chair of the history department at New York University, on the legacies of Emmett ... Till. Mamie Till Bradley's decision to have an open ...

(KTAL/KMSS) – A play about Emmett Till that features a local cast will ... Emmett’s mother Mamie had an open-casket funeral ...