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Emmett Till's Funeral: Emmett Till’s mother insisted that her son’s funeral be an open casket Emmett Till’s mother insisted that her son’s funeral be an open casket and declined the mortician’s offer to “touch up” her son’s body. “I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till,” she said. In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was abducted, tortured, killed, and dumped in the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi for supposedly flirting with a white woman by the name of Carolyn Bryant. Till’s killers were Roy Bryant (Carolyn’s husband) and his half-brother J.W. Milam. Both men were acquitted of the crime by an all-white jury. In 1956, they did a story with Look Magazine in which they admitted to the murder and received $4,000 in compensation. It's believed Carolyn Bryant is still alive today. She admitted to lying about the incident! Now The Story is Full Emmett Till’s mother declined an offer from the mortician to “touch up” her son’s body, and she made th...