"Till" is the new film about 14-yo Emmett Till, a Black youth from Chicago visiting Mississippi in 1955, who was abducted & murdered – a crime that helped spark the civil rights movement. Till's final days are recounted In this "60 Minutes" report by our late colleague Ed Bradley. https://cbsn.ws/3F2Ai9i | CBS Sunday Morning

Emmett Till was buried on September 6, 1955. Mamie Till Mobley's decision to hold an open-casket funeral for would make her son's death a touchstone for a generation. | American Experience | PBS

In 1955, JET magazine published a photograph that changed the scope of the civil rights movement forever—the body of Emmett Till at his open-casket funeral. After permission was given to run the image (taken by David Jackson) via Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, the photograph sparked decades long household conversations that unveiled America’s ugliest truth. Today, after more than 200 failed attempts– President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, making lynching a federal hate c