1955 photograph of the mutilated body of 14 year-old Emmett Till,The murderers were acquitted by a jury of white men, and protected by double jeopardy, admitted to the crime in a magazine a year later. His mother, Mamie, ignored those who told her to not open Emmett’s closed casket. She insisted on an open-casket funeral, so the world could see what had been done to her son. Sadly, not enough people have heard of Emmett. It’s a heartbreaking story of racism in the South.
