But he was not so irreverent as a tenth grader that he could see an image of Emmett Till’s open casket ... to take the controversial images of her son’s body at a funeral home in Chicago.

That crowd at Emmett’s funeral? They were African American ... Opinion Newsletter When CNN and Time and the rest say that the Till photos started the civil rights movement, they mean that ...

(WLS) -- Emmett Till and his mother ... but Till-Mobley invited the public to see her son's body at the funeral, and photos were published. The outrage and injustice sparked an even more fervent ...

The basis for its story is the brutal 1955 lynching of the teenager Emmett Till in ... open casket funeral for her son and wielded the power of the Black press to disseminate images of his ...

Mamie Till Mobley, Emmett’s mother ... And the emotional sacrifice Emmett’s mother made to release photos from his funeral not only raised public awareness, but was also “a real testament ...

But Mamie's decision to hold an open-casket funeral for her son, and to publish photos of his ... "Without Mamie Till-Mobley, the world wouldn't know who Emmett Till was," Chukwu says.

Till-Mobley insisted on an open-casket funeral ... Emmett Louis Till, 14, with his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, at home in Chicago, July 25, 1941. Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty ...

“And so once that image was ingrained in my head, it made me understand Emmett Till’s image ... to take the controversial images of her son’s body at a funeral home in Chicago.