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Thacker Leads the Smithsonian’s
Restoration of the Original Emmett
Till Casket
Emmett Till’s Original Casket Emmett Till’s casket carried at his funeral Emmett Till’s Casket in 1955
CLINTON,MD— Thacker Caskets re-
cently completed a multi-year project
to restore the original casket of Emmett
Till, an African-American teenager mur-
dered in 1955. Till’s case has been cred-
ited as a spark of the mid-century African
American civil rights movement, bringing
awareness to segregation issues particular-
ly in the south. The restored casket is now
a permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian’s
National Museum of African American
History and Culture in Washington, DC.
Till was an African American teenager
from Chicago who was visiting family in
Mississippi. Till was accused of whistling
and flirting with the white wife of a gro-
cery store owner, Carolyn Bryant. Four
days later, Carolyn’s husband and half-
brother kidnapped, beat and murdered
Till before dumping him into the Talla-
hatchie River. He was found a couple of
days later by two fishermen, his face un-
recognizable. The murderers were later ac-
quitted by an all-white jury.
Till’s body was shipped to his hometown
of Chicago where his mother decided on
an open-casket funeral. In her words, she
wanted to “let the world see what has hap-
pened because there is no way I could de-
scribe this. And I needed somebody to
help me tell what it was like.” The open
casket brought not only awareness to this
singular incident, but has also been de-
scribed as a metaphor for segregation dur-
ing that time in the racially charged south.
According to Smithsonian Magazine, see-
ing Till in the casket “motivated a lot of
people that were standing what we call ‘on
the fence’ against racism. It encouraged
them to get in the right and do something
about it.”
In 2005, Till’s body needed to be ex-
humed in order to reopen the case, and
with state laws preventing burial in the
original casket, it was eventually found in
a shed at the cemetery. The Smithsonian’s
National Museum of African American
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