Emmett’s mother Mamie Till Bradley insisted on holding an open-casket funeral. The boy’s face and head had been beaten and mutilated. And she wanted the world to see what had happened to her 14-year-old son.
Till was killed a year after Brown vs. Board and two months before Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. The brutal murder of Emmett Till and his funeral were events that ultimately led to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.
The Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till, 14, was from Chicago. And he was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi on August 24, 1955.
