Editorial: 'Everybody needed to know what happened to Emmett Till'
by Chicago Tribune
Jul 13, 2018
2 minutes
The brutal murder of Emmett Till, a black Chicago youth, in Mississippi nearly 63 years ago went unpunished, but not forgotten. A decision by his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, to allow an open casket at Emmett's Chicago funeral represented an act of defiance as well as mourning, helping to ignite the modern
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