Till's mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, demanded that he have an open casket funeral, which was attended by some 50,000 people. Later, Jet magazine published photos of his body, galvanizing the civil ...

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A journalist whose 1956 article was billed as the “true account” of Emmett Till’s killing withheld information that suggested ...

And if anything, if any event of the 1950s inspired young people to be committed to that kind of change, it was the lynching of Emmett Till. Emmett Till, in some ways, gave ordinary black people ...