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From SouthTownStar.com:

Emmett Till’s glass-topped casket that showed evidence of his death by lynching in 1955 turned up last week in the storage shed of an Alsip cemetery embroiled in a grave reselling scheme.

Now planners of a Civil Rights museum in Philadelphia, Miss., about three hours from where the 14-year-old Chicago teen was kidnapped and killed, are asking Till’s relatives to add it to their collection.

Wilmer Amina Carter, a California state assemblywoman with roots in Mississippi, would like to include it at the museum, according to her spokesman Eldred Marshall.

Cook County sheriff’s investigators have shut the cemetery to the public, declaring it a crime scene.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LeroyG1/ LeroyG1

    Damn son

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CookieG_2002/ CookieG_2002

    This is really sad. How could the idividuals who are being charged do something like this? I mean what da hell was going thru their minds?!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ChozenbyGod7/ ChozenbyGod7

    DIDNT KNOW THAT PEOPLE COULD BE SO CRUEL!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/beautyoftruth/ beautyoftruth

    omg! I guess this reiterates that being black is the hardest thing to be. We can’t have peace in life or in death. damn

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CamuiMS/ CamuiMS

    i saw something about this on tv with jesse jackson think? something about woodland animals having dug into his coffin and coming and going as they please.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mstanmi/ mstanmi

    This is sad…I cant believe people can be that cruel…Well this is America..Its still prejudice people living among us…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MISCONCEPTION28/ MISCONCEPTION28

    People steal caskets all the time. Color has nothing to do with it. Funeral homes go back and put the bodies in boxes and resell the caskets without the family’s knowledge. So if you ever buried a family memeber with jewerly or anything of value it is no longer there.Stop trying to play the race card it’s really getting old.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mdbabin19/ mdbabin19

    That is pretty messed up for someone to do that. I know a grave is not as important as the departed soul but the grave of Emmett Till is one of the most ultimate examples of a grave that should be kept at peace and in its most healthy preserved form. He suffered dearly, peace is not a hard thing to ask for.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/A_danger22/ A_danger22

    Race has everything to do with it. As a person coming from Chicago and having family there it is important that everyone rests in peace. Isn’t it ironic that a scheme to this extent has not been publicized in any predomantly white cemetaries. I hate when people act as though race has nothing to do with it like racism doesn’t exist. The messed up part about this is that the owner of the cemetary is an Afican American and I feel that he along with his crew screwed his own people.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DELTABEAUTY1913/ DELTABEAUTY1913

    this is a damn shame, white folks please let this s**t go

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CrEaMeH/ CrEaMeH

    Why are you doing this to us? Can we not settle our differences? To inform you lately i havent even been watching the news but lately i had a dream about me and all the african american race doing a rally because segregation was yet another part of our worries in the near future and it was scary because president obama was standing right next to me in the dream like martin luther king. The real scary thing is that i have never met president Obama and that my dreams usually come true….Be blessed we are reverting back to the times….so be prayed up.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Shay_Lah/ Shay_Lah

    Wow, this really touched my heart. I pray that every family stays strong. These vandals have nothing better to do, their hearts are filled with hate. They are just trying to keep us down…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BabyGyrl810/ BabyGyrl810

    mississppi has got to be kidding?? really?? i mean his last resting place has already been disturbed…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/pinkie75/ pinkie75

    Its heartbreaking knowing that these families have already lost there loved one once, now to lose them again, it’s such a shame. People need to get over themselves and stop hurting others that have done nothing wrong to them. These people didn’t deserve to have their families final resting place destroyed so that greedy people could make a quick buck. It’s disgusting and makes me sick to think about it.

  • http://newsone.com/nation/emmett-tills-casket-to-be-displayed-in-washington-dc-museum/ Emmett Till’s Casket To Be Displayed In Washington, DC Museum | NewsOne

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