Gov. Pritzker signs bill to honor Emmett Till and his mother

us to build a state and a nation that lives up to its highest ideals.”

In 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley held a public, open-casket funeral for her 14-year-old son after he was killed by two white men in Mississippi, J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant.

More than 50,000 people attended the funeral, which was held at the same church where the bill would be signed more continue reading …