Mamie made a stunning decision -- Emmett would have an open casket funeral. "I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till," she said. Some 50,000 people streamed in to view ...

and she made the decision to have an open casket funeral. “I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till,” she said. Mamie's decision would make her son's death a ...

(KTAL/KMSS) – A play about Emmett Till that features a local cast ... Emmett’s mother Mamie had an open-casket funeral for young Emmett because she wanted “the world to see” what Emmett ...

Rather than have a quick funeral, Till’s mother Mamie insisted on a public service with an open casket back in Chicago. The decision meant that the tens of thousands of mourners saw Till’s ...

This national park site honors the family of Emmett Till, preserves the history of one of the country's most horrific hate crimes, and commemorates the struggle for civil rights that continues today.