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Smithsonian Institution secretary Lonnie Bunch III spoke with CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett about how Till's open casket funeral impacted the civil rights movement. Jul 25 ...
Emmett Till memorial in Mississippi could be removed as part of DOGE-recommended $1 billion cuts to national parks - Massive reduction to National Parks Service budget and Donald Trump’s culture war a ...
CHICAGO -- The glass-topped casket that showed lynching victim Emmett Till's battered body to the world and became a rallying point for the civil rights movement will be put on ...
FILE - In this Sept. 3, 1955, file photo, mourners pass Emmett Till's casket in Chicago. Till was a 14-year-old African American boy who was kidnapped, tortured and lynched for whistling at a ...
Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. is the last living witness to one of America’s most notorious lynchings. He was with his cousin, Emmett Till, in 1955 when the 14-year-old was accused of whistling at a ...