PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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She wanted the world to see what had been done to her son.
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She needed Emmett’s body to have fresh air.
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Open caskets were part of her religious practices.
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The funeral home forced her to have an open casket.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Emmett Till’s mother declined an offer from the mortician to “touch up” her son’s body, and she made the decision to have an open casket funeral. “I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till, ” she said. Mamie’s decision would make her son’s death a touchstone for a generation.
Detailed explanation-2: -For Emmett’s funeral, in Chicago, Mamie Till insisted that the casket containing his body be left open, because, in her words, “I wanted the world to see what they did to my baby."
Detailed explanation-3: -Till-Mobley, who had been born and raised in rural Mississippi, warned her son that Mississippi was ripe with racism. She reminded her son, who had grown up in Chicago, that he needed to obey his relatives.