This 22-year-old had to get her arm amputated due to a rare cancer. She had an open-casket funeral for it that went viral and ...

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 ... of the body, black Americans ...

Emmett's mother decides to have an open casket funeral. Thousands of Chicagoans ... September 15, 1955 Jet magazine, the nationwide black magazine owned by Chicago-based Johnson Publications ...

Her open-casket funeral for it went viral ... Doucette's one request was that they wear something black, which they happily obliged. Doucette wore a long black dress with a black veil.