Emmett Till Casket

2009-08-28T10:46:35Z

Simeon Wright, a cousin of lynching victim Emmett Till, speaks at a news conference Friday, Aug. 28, 2009, at the same church that in 1955 that the brutalized remains of the 14-year-old Till were put on display in Chicago. The family has donated the original casket Till was buried in to the Emmett Till's casket, rallying point of civil rights-era, given to Smithsonian</div><div><p>The glass-topped casket that displayed lynching victim Emmett Till's disfigured body to the world and became a rallying point for the civil rights movement is headed to the Smithsonian ...

Till Casket

2009-08-28T01:16:13Z

FILE - In this July 10, 2009 file photo, the original glass-topped casket of lynching victim Emmett Till is seen rusting in a shack at the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill., after it was found by investigators at the cemetery where four workers are accused of digging up bodies to resell plots. On Friday, Aug. 28, 2009, officials from the Smithsonian Institution in

Investigation Continues Into Desecrated Illinois Cemetery

2009-07-14T15:16:02Z

ALSIP, IL - JULY 14: A tombstone is marked with an X by investigators searching for evidence at Burr Oak Cemetery July 14, 2009 in Alsip, Illinois. Police recently closed the cemetery declaring the site a crime scene after human remains were found on the ground at various locations in the cemetery. Police suspect hundreds of graves could have been dug up in the historic black cemetery over the last several years and the bodies dumped elsewhere on ...

Even in death, no rest for lynching victim Till

2010-02-26T09:57:44Z

<div id="subtitle">No rest for Emmett Till even in death; boy's original casket tied to Chicago cemetery scandal</div><div><p>When his mother put the battered body of 14-year-old Emmett Till in the ground more than 50 years ago, it was supposed to be the end of a sad saga for the boy whose lynching became a rallying point for the civil rights...

Jesse Jackson Holds Vigil At Desecrated Chicago-Area Cemetery

2009-07-12T19:15:42Z

ALSIP, IL - JULY 12: Rev Jesse Jackson speaks at a memorial for people affected by the Burr Oak Cemetery desecration 12, 2009 in Alsip, Illinois. Police recently closed the cemetery declaring the site a crime scene after human remains were found on the ground at various locations in the cemetery. Police suspect hundreds of graves could have been dug up in the historic black cemetery over th...

Relatives go to Ill. cemetery looking for answers

2010-02-26T11:37:29Z

<div id="subtitle">Stream of relatives go to Ill. cemetery looking for answers; exhumation finds nothing abnormal</div><div><p>A constant stream of relatives hoping to find their loved ones showed up Saturday as officials exhumed one grave in a cemetery where four former employees are accused of digging up and dumping hundreds of bodies in a scheme to resell plots.</p><p>One body was found in the exhumed grave at...

Cemetery Desecration

2009-07-11T13:45:13Z

Photographers take photos of original glass-topped casket of lynching victim Emmett Till as it sits rusting in a shack at the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill., on Friday, July 10, 2009. It was found by investigators at the cemetery where four workers are accused of digging up bodies to resell plots. The 14-year-old Chicagoan was killed in 1955 after reportedly whistling at a white woman during a visit to his uncle's house in Illinois. Hundreds of people turned up at the cemetery today to find and inspect the graves of family members to see if they had been desecrated. Police suspect upwards to 300 graves could have been dug up in the historic cemetery over the last several years and the bodies du...

FBI pleads for info in civil rights-era killings

2010-03-01T22:59:11Z

<div id="subtitle">FBI makes final call for information on 43 unsolved Miss. cases from civil rights era</div><div><p>The FBI pleaded for information Thursday about 43 unsolved civil rights-era slaying in Mississippi, saying time is running out because potential witnesses and suspects are growin...

FBI's civil rights initiative: no trials yet

2010-03-02T03:14:40Z

<div id="subtitle">Despite fanfare, FBI initiative brings no prosecutions in unsolved civil rights era killings</div><div><p>Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, Mississippi is vandalized; town vows to restore it</div><div><p>A sign marking the site where Emmett Till's battered body was pulled from a river in 1955 has been ripped down by vandals, authorities said.</p><p>The sign posted on a road near the ...

Senate approves bill to probe civil rights murders

2010-02-28T09:58:35Z

<div id="subtitle">Senate passes Emmett Till bill bolstering FBI investigations into civil rights-era cold cases</div><div><p>The Senate passed legislation Wednesday that would give the Justice Department more mo...

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