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Amy Goodman: I go back in time to talk about what should be done to the story of Emmett Till. Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy in the summer of 1955, lived in Chicago with his mother Mamie. And she sent him down to Money, Mississippi for the summer to be with family. And he ended up being lynched there.

A white mob, white family, not even clear exactly what happened. But they said he wolf whistled at a white woman. And he ends up in the bottom of the Tallahatchie River. He's dragged out of bed. He's tortured. He's killed.

And his mother Mamie Till had has body sent back to Chicago. And she did something very defiant, very brave. She said she wanted his casket open for all to see. She wanted his casket open for the wake and the funeral for the world to see the ravages of racism, the brutality of bigotry.

And so thousands streamed by his casket. I just was in Detroit speaking, and an older African American man, white hair, white beard came up to me afterwards said, my father took me there. I was 12 years old. Emmett was 14. I'll never forget that open casket, seeing Emmett's head, he said.

Well, Jet Magazine and other black publications took photographs, and they were published. And they were indelibly seared into the conscience and history of this country. Mamie Till, Mamie Till Mobley, Emmett Till's mother, had something very important to teach the press of today. Show the pictures. Show the images.