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. She held the ...

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 ...

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 ...

So she sent the limb to a mortician who embalmed it and held an open-casket funeral for it with her friends ... request was that they wear something black, which they happily obliged.

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.