CHICAGO -- The glass-topped casket that showed lynching victim Emmett Till's battered ... will be put on display at the Smithsonian Institution, Till's family announced Friday.

He was with his cousin, Emmett Till, in 1955 when the ... The family has donated the original glass-topped casket Till was buried in to the Smithsonian Institution's planned National Museum ...

Mamie Till-Mobley weeps at her son Emmett Till's funeral on Sept. 6, 1955, in Chicago. Till-Mobley insisted on an open-casket funeral ... Henry Clay Anderson/Smithsonian National Museum of ...