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On Sept. 3, 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley held an open-casket funeral in Illinois. ... Photographs from the funeral of Emmett Till at a Chicago Historical Society exhibit.
Mamie Till at Emmett Till's funeral, 1955. In the summer of 1955, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago was visiting family in Webb, Mississippi. On August 28, Till was abducted, beaten, and lynched by two white men after they accused him of whistling at one of the men's wives. [2] [4] After Till's murder, his body ...
Till's body was returned to Chicago, where his mother insisted on a public funeral service with an open casket, which was held at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ. [4] It was later said that "The open-coffin funeral held by Mamie Till Bradley [ a ] exposed the world to more than her son Emmett Till's bloated, mutilated body.
Days earlier, before Till’s funeral in Chicago, she ordered that the casket remain open to “let the world see what they did to my boy”. On 23 September, the jury acquitted Roy Bryant and JW ...
Mamie Till-Mobley famously insisted that her son's casket be kept open at his funeral, showing the full extent of his injuries. “I wanted the world to see what they did to my boy,” she said .
By the 1950s, the civil rights movement was gaining new momentum. It was spurred by the lynching of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old youth from Chicago who was killed while visiting an uncle in Mississippi. His mother insisted on having an open-casket funeral so that people could see how badly her son had been beaten.
Mamie Till Mobley, Emmett's mother, weeps at her son's funeral on Sept. 6, 1955, in Chicago. She insisted that her son's body be displayed in an open casket forcing the nation to see the brutality ...
The film chronicles the story of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi in 1955. He was brutally murdered by two white men after an interaction with the white wife of one of them. [1] Emmett's mother, Mamie Till Bradley, insisted on a public funeral with an open casket.