Some die in peace and some rest in peace, but it feel like for this 14-year-old boy Emmett Till peace is an unknown word even after his death. Emmett Till a resident of Chicago came to Mississippi to visit his relative in August of 1955, while visiting around the area he whistled at a white causation woman outside of a market and that was his mistake at the time no black man, boy or child had the right to do so and he paid for his mistake.
The husband of that white woman and another man took Emmett Till from his bed; three days later the body of the boy was found while his neck was bard wired and a fan was hanging with it from a river nearby, the body was brutally beaten almost all his teeth were missing, one eye was missing and his nose was also broken.
Pictures of Emmett Till’s mutilated body were published in Jet Magazine in 1955 soon after his death; this became one of the reasons to boost the civil rights movement at the time. Several civil rights protesters said at the time that after seeing those photos not only haunted but inspired them and gave them a boost to become more active than before.
Emmett Till’s mother at his memorial service decided to keep the casket open by saying that she wasn’t the world to see what they did to her son.
Till’s casket once again saw the day light when in 2005 during his murder investigation, investigators needed to examine the body. He was reburied soon after.
According to Cook County Sheriff Emmett Till’s glass topped casket “Original” was found in awful condition, however, his present grave location does not shows any sign that it was disturbed.
Burr Oak Cemetery is currently in the news for an alleged scheme for digging old graves and re-sells the plots.
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