The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, established in 2023 by President Joe Biden, is under threat due to ...

Cuts at the hands of DOGE are threatening to eliminate the budget for NPS by roughly $1 billion, putting the Emmett Till ...

When Mamie Till-Mobley arrived at the funeral service, the church’s 1,800 seats were overflowing, and an estimated 5,000 additional mourners gathered along the adjacent sidewalks, ...

Director Chinonye Chukwu tells the story of Mamie Till-Mobley, whose decision to hold an open-casket funeral for her murdered son served as a catalyst for the civil rights movement.

A memorial honoring Mamie Till-Mobley, ... Emmett Till’s 1955 lynching in Mississippi and his mother’s insistence on an open-casket funeral for the 14-year-old served as a catalyst for civil ...

Till-Mobley asserted that “the whole nation had to bear witness to this” when she ordered that her son’s coffin remain open for his funeral. “I wanted the world to see and I knew I could ...

In 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy was lynched in Mississippi. Till tells the story of Mamie Till-Mobley, whose insistence on an open-casket funeral helped ignite the civil rights movement.

A memorial honoring Mamie Till-Mobley, ... Emmett Till's 1955 lynching in Mississippi and his mother's insistence on an open-casket funeral for the 14-year-old served as a catalyst for civil rights.

For his funeral she insisted on an open casket funeral to show the world what happened to her son. The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will be in Mississippi and Illinois.

Till-Mobley's decision to have an open-casket funeral for her son helped spark the Civil Rights Movement and made her an agent of change. The commissioned life-sized bronze statue was revealed to ...

Deborah Watts of Minneapolis, points out a widely seen 1950s photograph of her cousin Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till Mobley, during a visit to Jackson, Miss., Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015 in ...