No one ever served prison time for the killing of Emmett Till, a fourteen year ... murder spurred the Civil Rights Movement. His mother, Mamie Till Mobley, explains, "When people saw what happened ...

More than 60 years after his murder by white supremacists in the 1950s, Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who insisted on an open casket funeral for her son, are one step closer to ...

Emmett Till’s mother declined an offer from the mortician to “touch up” her son’s body, and she made the decision to have an open casket funeral. “I think everybody needed to know what ...

In the summer of 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped, tortured and lynched while visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi. The determination of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, to show the world ...

Both Till and Women Of The Movement tell the story of Mamie Till Mobley, Emmett Till’s mother, as she reckons with the tragic death of her son. Her real-life decision to have an open casket at ...

Whitten’s granddaughter, Ellen Whitten, found the documents in April and with her mother donated them to the Emmett Till ...

The death of 14-year-old Emmett Till shocked the world and sparked the Civil Rights Movement. Wednesday, inmates at the Utah State Correctional Facility were able to learn about the details of his ...

When 14-year-old Emmett Till left Chicago for Mississippi on a southbound train in the summer of 1955, he almost forgot to kiss his mother goodbye. The bright-eyed youth was excited for a big trip to ...