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Mar 31, 2023 · Emmett Till’s body was prepared for burial at A. A. Rayner Funeral Home in Chicago, Illinois. Mamie Till-Mobley insisted on an open-casket funeral. “Let the world see what I’ve seen,” she told the funeral director. Emmett’s service was held at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago’s South Side. On the day of the service ...
Aug 27, 2021 · When Mamie Till-Mobley saw what the two men from Mississippi had done to her son, Emmett, (above: ca. 1953-1955) she declared that his disfigured body would lie in an open casket. NMAAHC, gift of ...
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Jul 12, 2018 · Mamie Till Mobley weeps at her son's funeral on Sept. 6, 1955, in Chicago. The mother of Emmett Till insisted that her son's body be displayed in an open casket, forcing the nation to see the ...
Aug 2, 2023 · Roberts Temple Church, at 40th and State streets, will preserve the site where Till’s body was displayed in an open casket and launched the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Jul 13, 2018 · No one was ever convicted in Emmett’s slaying. Emmett’s mother, who taught special education in Chicago elementary schools, never stopped fighting for justice for her son. She told The Post in ...
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Mar 21, 2017 · Open Casket by American painter Dana Schutz depicts the mutilated corpse of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old black boy murdered in 1955 after it was falsely claimed he flirted with a white woman.
Mar 22, 2024 · When his mutilated body was recovered from the Tallahatchie River, his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley insisted on an open-casket funeral in Chicago to “let the people see what they did to my boy ...
