Simeon Wright, 67, is Emmett Till's cousin and was ... and his family recently donated the casket in which he was buried to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and ...

On Nov. 23, the Chicago History Museum is opening a new exhibition, “Injustice: The Trial for the Murder of Emmett Till ... also decided to have a open casket, and so tens of thousands ...

A new national monument for Emmett Till and his mother ... His mother insisted on an open casket. An estimated 250,000 mourners came. Rory Doyle for The New York Times Graball Landing Graball ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Emmett Till ... to have an open casket for Emmett's funeral following his murder. The Freedom Center says the exhibit will have stories of Emmett Till, whose life was ...

The painting depicted the open-casket funeral of Emmett Till, a black boy who was murdered ... and demanded that the museum remove it “because it is not acceptable for a white person to ...

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 ...

NMAAHC / Eric Long Soon after the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened, I witnessed a powerful exchange. At the casket of Emmett Till, two families of different races met ...

Moses Wright identifies the body from a ring with the initials L.T. In Chicago, Mamie Till arrives at the Illinois Central Terminal to receive Emmett's casket. She is surrounded by family and ...