MOMENTS IN HISTORY as seen on LOVECRAFT COUNTRY:
“I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till,” Mamie Till-Mobley said of her son, affectionately nicknamed “Bobo”.
Mamie’s decision to decline the mortician’s offer to “touch up” her son’s body and have an open casket funeral would make Emmett Till’s death a touchstone for a generation.
At a church on the South Side of Chicago, her son’s mutilated body would be on display for all to see. Fifty thousand people in Chicago saw Emmett Till’s corpse with their own eyes.
When the magazine Jet ran photos of the body, black Americans across the country shuddered. A stoic Mamie gazing at her murdered child’s ravaged body forced the world to reckon with the brutality of American racism.
FUNERAL OF EMMETT “BOBO” TILL (6th of September 1955)














