Till's casket to go to Smithsonian
Casket will be part of new museum in 2015
Updated: Friday, 28 Aug 2009, 4:57 AM MDT
Published : Friday, 28 Aug 2009, 4:56 AM MDT
CHICAGO (AP) - Emmett Till's family is donating the civil rights-era lynching
victim's original casket to the Smithsonian Institution.
A news conference is planned Friday at the same Chicago
church where the teen's brutalized remains were displayed in the
glass-topped casket in 1955. He was killed in Mississippi after
whistling at a white woman.
Till's casket will be at the Smithsonian's National Museum of
African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., when it
opens in 2015.
The tattered casket was found last month in a shed at the
suburban Chicago cemetery where former workers are suspected of
unearthing corpses and reselling plots.
Till's remains weren't disturbed. But after his body was
exhumed in 2005 and reburied in a new casket, the original casket
was simply discarded.
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