Simeon Wright, 67, is Emmett Till's cousin and was ... that her son be displayed in a glass-topped casket, so the world could see his beaten body. Till's murder became a rallying point for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

(KTAL/KMSS) – A play about Emmett Till that features a local cast will ... Emmett’s mother Mamie had an open-casket funeral ...