Mamie Till Demands Open Casket: 'Let the People See What They Did to My Boy'

When Emmett Till's mutilated body is returned to Chicago, his mother Mamie Till-Mobley insists on an open casket funeral at Roberts Temple Church of God. 'I wanted the world to see what they did to my boy,' she says. An estimated 50,000-100,000 people view the body over four days. Jet magazine publishes the photographs. Mamie's decision to make her son's murder visible galvanizes the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks later says she thought of Emmett Till when she refused to give up her bus seat.