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Spencer Green / AP Images. 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...
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...
Jul 10, 2016 · She brought him home to Chicago and insisted on an open casket. Tens of thousands filed past Till’s remains, but it was the publication of the searing image photographed by David Jackson and...
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Oct 19, 2022 · Seen here, at far left in the flower-patterned dress, is Clotye Murdock, reporter for Ebony magazine. With her, his back to the camera and in the immediate foreground is David Jackson, the photographer who took the famous casket photo of Emmett Till’s tortured body.
Till’s mother, Mamie Till Mobley insisted on an open-casket at his funeral services – which were attended by more than 50,000 people and chronicled by Jet magazine. The photo of Till with his mother earlier that year alongside Jet’s photo of his mutilated corpse horrified the nation and became a catalyst for the bourgeoning civil rights ...
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Aug 28, 2020 · Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting Emmett Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, wanted the world to see “what they did to my baby.” His body looked monstrous, as if the 14-year-old had absorbed every blow of hate delivered by his killers — a photograph that ran in Jet magazine and many other African-American publications, but ...
The image is transformed by a single, penetrating detail: a plaque affixed to the sign with the motto of the town where Till’s murderers were tried and acquitted—“Sumner, A Good Place to Raise a Boy.” Emmett Till in Casket, 1955. Courtesy Chicago Defender.
