Mamie Till
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Dec 2, 2009 · In 2009, the original glass-topped casket that Emmett Till was buried in was acquired by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Body and Open-Casket...
Nov 17, 2016 · 5.3M views 7 years ago. Emmett Till was brutally killed in the summer of 1955. At his funeral, his mother forced the world to reckon with the brutality of American racism. Subscribe to TIME...
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...
Jul 12, 2018 · Photographers captured her leaning over the casket, to which photos of the smiling boy had been taped inside the lid. At the graveside, the mother held her stomach as she cried.
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 ...
Fifty thousand people in Chicago saw Emmett Till's corpse with their own eyes. When the magazine Jet ran photos of the body, black Americans across the country shuddered.
