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Emmett Till's former casket found discarded

Jul. 10, 2009
Authorities revealed more disturbing discoveries Friday at an Illinois cemetery where hundreds of burial plots were allegedly dug up and resold, including more emptied graves and the discarded casket of a civil rights icon.
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Emmett Till's family seeking casket

Emmett Till's family seeking casket

ALSIP, Ill., July 10 (UPI) -- The family of Emmett Till says it wants to relocate a casket that once held the late civil rights icon's body from a cemetery in Alsip, Ill.

Emmett Till's church may become landmark

CHICAGO, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Chicago is considering landmark status for the church where the mother of Emmett Till added fuel the rapidly growing civil rights movement, a report said.

Body identified as Emmett Till

SUMNER, Miss., Aug. 26 (UPI) -- A body exhumed from an Illinois cemetery has reportedly been identified as Emmett Till, the teenage boy killed by racists in 1955.

FBI exhumes body of Emmett Till

ALSIP, Ill., June 1 (UPI) -- The FBI exhumed the body of slain teenager Emmett Till from his Alsip, Ill., gravesite Wednesday.

Till family divided over exhumation

CHICAGO, May 5 (UPI) -- The family of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Chicago youth killed by Mississippi racists in 1955, is divided over exhumation and an autopsy on his body.

Report: Autopsy for Emmett Till's body

CHICAGO, May 4 (UPI) -- The FBI reportedly is ready to order exhumation of the body of Emmett Till 50 years after the Chicago teen was kidnapped and killed in rural Mississippi.

Mamie Mobley, mother of Emmett Till, dies

CHICAGO, Jan. 7 (UPI) --
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Russian Maria Sharapova signs autographs after winning her French Open womens first round match against Romanian Alexandra Cadantu at Roland Garros in Paris on May 29, 2012. Sharapova defeated Cadantu 6-0, 6-0 to advance to the next round. UPI/David Silpa