Emmett Till Casket

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Emmett Till Casket
Simeon Wright, a cousin of lynching victim Emmett Till, speaks at a news conference Friday, Aug. 28, 2009, at the same church that in 1955 that the brutalized remains of the 14-year-old Till were put on display in Chicago. The family has donated the original casket Till was buried in to the Smithsonian Institution's planned National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. The casket was recently discovered discarded like trash at the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill., where former workers are charged with digging up corpses and reselling burial plot. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)