When Emmett Till's mutilated body was transported back to Chicago for his funeral, some 100,000 people stopped by Bronzeville's Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ to pay respects to the 15-year-old boy who was brutally tortured and murdered for whistling at a White woman. Among those who attended his open-casket funeral was a burgeoning … Continued

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