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 ...

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 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 co-wrote together.