By Victor Trammell Photo credits: The Family of Emmett Till The United States Senate has approved a measure to posthumously give the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till, the Chicago boy slain in the 1950s by white supremacists, and to his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who insisted on an open casket burial to emphasize the horror […]

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