The Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley exhibit premiers Friday at theNational Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

Myrdal and his researchers ask white ... with the initials L.T. In Chicago, Mamie Till arrives at the Illinois Central Terminal to receive Emmett's casket. She is surrounded by family and ...

A new national monument for Emmett Till and his mother ... is where Emmett’s funeral was held in September 1955. His mother insisted on an open casket. An estimated 250,000 mourners came.

Freedom Center, located at 50 E. Freedom Way, the exhibit spotlights the 1955 incident in an effort to show the work that ...

The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi," revisits what is often considered the most galvanizing event of the ...

Myrdal and his researchers ask white ... with the initials L.T. In Chicago, Mamie Till arrives at the Illinois Central Terminal to receive Emmett's casket. She is surrounded by family and ...

That Emmett Till’s body even made it to Chicago from Mississippi demonstrates Mamie Till-Mobley’s determination and resilience. She paid nearly a year’s salary to have his body transported by train ...

President Joe Biden last week declared the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument ... due in large part to his mother Mamie Till-Mobley's decision to leave his casket open. Till's body, ...

The painting depicted the open-casket funeral of Emmett Till, a black boy who was murdered after a white woman accused him of flirting with her, and critics said it was offensive because it amount ...

Nearly 70 years ago, 14-year-old Emmett ... an open casket for her late son's funeral, saying “Let the world see what they did to my boy.” Till's story and the lasting impact of his mother's ...