The church that held the funeral for Emmett Till, an African American youth whose brutal murder in 1955 helped galvanize the modern Civil Rights Movement, has been made part of a national monument.
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As a child in Chicago, Charles Dumas attended Till’s funeral along with thousands of others: “The horror I witnessed in that glass covered open casket has haunted my nightmares for 70 years.”
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