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The Chicago pastor recalls the night 60 years ago when two white men came for his cousin Emmett Till.
The choice by Till’s mother, Mamie Till Mobley, to hold an open-coffin funeral in Chicago gave tens of tens of thousands of individuals the opportunity to view his mutilated body.
The 60th anniversary of Till’s murder was memorialized Friday with a motorcade processional from his funeral site at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ at 4021 S. State St. to his burial site at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, hosted by Till’s relatives and the Mamie Till Mobley Memorial Foundation.
Among the mourners at Till’s gravesite was Geneva Reed-Veal, the mother of Sandra Bland – an African American girl from Naperville who was detained in Texas and discovered hanged in a jail cell a month ago.
“Our family, we had coped with injustice for 60 years. We never had justice for Emmett Till’s murder.”
The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. and the Rev. Al Sharpton are scheduled to speak at a gospel service in Till’s memory Sunday at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ.