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Sep 2, 2015 · Sixty years ago Jet magazine published photos of the disfigured and decomposed body of slain 14-year-old African American Emmett Till, rattling communities across the country and reigniting a...
Dec 2, 2009 · Till’s devastated mother insisted on a public, open-casket funeral for her son to shed light on the violence inflicted on Black people in the South.
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Emmett Till's story: Seattle museum turns pain into purpose with Juneteenth exhibit
The Northwest African American Museum's Juneteenth exhibit opens a portal to the past, highlighting ...
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Looks like the Senate is doing something right. The U.S. Senate passed a bill that will posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to E...
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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...
In 1955, Emmett Till —a 14-year-old African-American visiting Mississippi from Chicago—was murdered after whistling at a white woman. His mother insisted that her son be displayed in a...
Jul 12, 2018 · The emotional photos at Emmett’s funeral captured Till-Mobley as she approached her son’s casket. Her body seemed to buckle. Photographers captured her leaning over the casket, to which...
Emmett Till, a teen from Chicago, didn't understand that he had broken the unwritten laws of the Jim Crow South until three days later, when two white men dragged him from his bed in the dead...
The alleged teasing of white store clerk Carolyn Bryant by the 14 year-old African American Emmett Till led to his brutal murder at the hands of Bryant’s husband Roy and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, forcing the American public to grapple with the menace of violence in the Jim Crow South.
