Topic: Emmett Till
AP News | 2009-08-28 17:20:10
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 ...
AP News | 2009-08-28 21:44:39
Lynching victim Emmett Till's casket, rallying point of civil rights-era, given to Smithsonian
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 Institution, Till's family announced Friday. "Hopefully, when this casket, when it's on display at ...
AP News | 2009-08-28 08:02:16
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 ...
Getty Images | 2009-07-14 22:01:56
