Scott Olson/Getty Images A plaque marks the gravesite for Emmett Till at a cemetery in Illinois Both the FBI and the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division have been alerted to the photo by ...

Fifty thousand people in Chicago saw Emmett Till's corpse with their own eyes. When the magazine Jet ran photos of the body, black Americans across the country shuddered.

She is surrounded by family and photographers who snap her photo ... of Emmett Till. They both plead innocent. They will be held in jail until the start of the trial. September 15, 1955 Jet ...

When Emmett Till’s body was returned to Chicago ... his mother made the brave decision to allow Jet magazine to publish a photo of the mutilated corpse and also decided to have a open casket ...