Devin Allen admits that he occasionally behaved like a knucklehead, growing up in Baltimore. But he was not so irreverent as a tenth grader that he could see an image of Emmett Till’s open casket and ...

Moves made by Donald Trump’s administration could pave the way for the removal of a national monument honoring Emmett Till, an icon of the civil rights movement, risking a public outcry. Trump’s ...

*An abstract painting of Emmett Till currently featured in New York’s Whitney Museum of Art reimagines the searing image of the murdered teen disfigured and unidentifiable following his brutal murder ...

Till’s open-casket service at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ sent shockwaves across the nation. The Chicago church where Emmett Till’s open-casket funeral sent shockwaves across the nation is ...

Emmett Till’s original glass-topped coffin, now on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, stands as a powerful reminder of his mother’s courage and the ...

JACKSON, Miss. — It was the image of Emmett Till’s disfigured body, lying in an open casket for the world to see, that helped galvanize a movement. He had been beaten, but bullets also played a role ...

Statue honoring Mamie Till-Mobley, mother of Emmett Till, to be unveiled in Illinois Mamie Till-Mobley, whose insistence on an open-casket funeral for lynched 14-year-old Emmett Till, was a civil ...

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