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 ...

The last living person to see Emmett ... funeral and said 'that's not him'; I was in shock or something, but I think about his suffering, the suffering that he suffered that night, the screaming ...

Vincent Williams will direct "The Face of Emmett Till," which Emmett's mother Mamie Till-Mobley and playwright David Barr III ...

At about 2:30a.m. on August 28, under the cover of darkness ... would have an open casket funeral. "I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till," she said.

The Till home in Chicago's Southside will receive funding to revive the second floor to what it looked like when the family lived there.