The crowd files past the open casket of Emmett Till inside Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago to pay their respects at Emmett Louis Till’s funeral on Sept. 3, 1955.

The South Side church where 14-year-old Emmett Till’s battered body was displayed in an open casket, lighting fire to the Civil Rights Movement, was designated one of America’s 11 Most ...

CHICAGO – The church where an estimated 100,000 people filed past the open casket of Emmett Till, which exposed the brutality of racism in the U.S. and helped catalyze the civil rights movement ...

Roberts Temple Church, at 40th and State streets, will preserve the site where Till’s body was displayed in an open casket and launched the modern Civil Rights Movement.

Topline. A Chicago church that went down in American history when it was the backdrop for 14-year-old lynching victim Emmett Till’s famously open-casket funeral has been named one of America’s ...

A picture made available by the Italian online news portal Open, showing people gathered around a swastika-covered casket outside the St. Lucia church, in Rome, Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. The Catholic ...

Pope Francis is lying in state in an open casket at St. Peter's ... ’ death and funeral inaugurates a carefully orchestrated period of transition in the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church, ...

After an open-casket funeral at their mother’s church, the children of Kyung Ja Kim gathered around a gravesite to see her laid to rest. As the casket was lowered into the grave, the funeral ...