SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - Tonight, we’re looking back at history — really disturbing history.

14-year-old Emmett Till from Chicago was abducted, beaten and lynched in 1955, while visiting family in Mississippi. The murder happened after Till allegedly whistled to a white woman inside of a grocery store.

His killers got off at the time in a relatively quick trial and later admitted to killing him.

In a remarkable act of bravery, his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, asked the funeral home in Chicago to have an open casket funeral. The horrible image of what they did to her son reverberated around the country, bringing light to what was happening in the segregated south back in the ‘50s.

Many experts and civil rights leaders say this murder is what really ignited the spark to the Civil Rights M

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