Burr Oak Cemetery. 📍

On our way to Chicago O’Hare, we detoured to visit the gravesites of Emmett Till and Mamie Till Mobley. We also stopped by the Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ, the site of Emmett’s open-casket funeral in 1955.

Last year, we visited all of the known sites in Mississippi associated with Emmett’s murder and mutilation. The church, along two related sites in Mississippi, were designated as a national monument in 2023.

Graveyard with several left items near a gravesite

Close up of Emmett Till’s grave plaque

Mamie Till Mobley grave plaque, which mentions her role in the civil rights movement

Boarded up church front