An undated portrait shows Emmett Till, the 14-year-old from Chicago who was visiting relatives in Mississippi in August 1955 when he was kidnapped, tortured and killed after witnesses heard him whistle at a white woman. Till's mother insisted on an open-casket funeral, and 'Jet' magazine published photos of his brutalised body. AP
Mamie Till Mobley weeps at her son's funeral on September 6, 1955, in Chicago, Illinois. The mother of Emmett Till insisted that her son's body be displayed in an open casket forcing the nation to see the brutality directed at blacks in the south at the time. Chicago Sun-Times / AP
Emmett Till's photo is seen on his grave marker in Alsip, Illinois. AP
A sign marking where police recovered the body of 14 -year-old Emmett Till is displayed in the entryway of the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington. The marker is one of three replaced at the site where police found Till and is a new addition to the permanent collection at the museum. Getty Images / AFP
A Mississippi Freedom Trail marker sits before the remains of Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market in Money, Mississippi, where Emmett Till was accused of whistling at a white woman. AP
A private property sign near what was Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market in Money, Mississippi. AP
A large crowd gathers outside the Roberts Temple Church of God In Christ in Chicago, September 6, 1955, as pallbearers carry the casket of Emmett Till. AP
Four-year-old Senty Banutu-Gomez holds a photograph of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy who was lynched in 1955, on the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Reuters
Representative Bobby Rush speaks during a news conference about the Emmett Till Antilynching Act on Capitol Hill in Washington. AP
Radio host Joe Madison hugs Representative Bobby Rush as they arrive for a bill enrolment ceremony for the Emmett Till Antilynching Act in Washington. Getty Images / AFP
Deborah Watts and Priscilla Sterling, cousins of Emmett Till, show a document used by Mississippi Attorney General Office representative Wayne Lynch to indicate receipt of a poster and accompanying thumb drive that reportedly holds almost 300,000 signatures on a petition seeking a renewed investigation into Till's 1955 lynching. AP
Deborah Watts, a cousin of Emmett Till, holds a poster and the thumb drive. AP
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signs HR 55, the 'Emmett Till Antilynching Act', which designates lynching as a hate crime under federal law, during a ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington, with Democratic Representatives Bennie Thompson, Joyce Beatty, Bobby Rush, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and radio host Joe Madison. AP
