http://politicalscandalnews.com/topic/emmett-till2010-09-08T13:03:52Z2010-09-08T13:03:52ZAP Newstag:politicalscandalnews.com,2010-09-08:/photo/emmett-casket-1620048p/

<a title="Simeon Wright" href="/topic/Simeon+Wright" >Simeon Wright</a>, a cousin of lynching victim <a title="Emmett Till" href="/topic/Emmett+Till" >Emmett Till</a>, speaks at a news conference Friday, Aug. 28, 2009, at the same church that in 1955 that the brutalized remains of the 14-year-old Till were put on display in <a title="Chicago" href="/topic/Chicago" >Chicago</a>. The family has donated the original casket Till was buried in to the <a title="Smithsonian Institution" href="/topic/Sm...

2010-04-03T09:45:13ZAP Newstag:politicalscandalnews.com,2010-04-03:/photo/casket-1616419p/

FILE - In this July 10, 2009 file photo, the original glass-topped casket of lynching victim <a title="Emmett Till" href="/topic/Emmett+Till" >Emmett Till</a> is seen rusting in a shack at the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill., after it was found by investigators at the cemetery where four workers are accused of digging up bodies to resell plots. On Friday, Aug. 28, 2009, officials from the <a title="Smithsonian Institution" href="/topic/Smithsonian+Institution" >Smithsonian Institution</a> in <a...

2010-04-06T04:16:38ZAP Newstag:politicalscandalnews.com,2010-04-06:/photo/cemetery-desecration-1394345p/

Photographers take photos of original glass-topped casket of lynching victim <a title="Emmett Till" href="/topic/Emmett+Till" >Emmett Till</a> as it sits rusting in a shack at the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill., on Friday, July 10, 2009. It was found by investigators at the cemetery where four workers are accused of digging up bodies to resell plots. The 14-year-old Chicagoan was killed in 1955 after reportedly whistling at a white woman during a visit to his uncle's house in <a title="Mississ...