Desperate to find a way to stop the butchering of innocents in America, we tell ourselves this story:
In 1955, upon seeing her son’s mutilated face and body, Mamie Till Bradley made her decision: “Let the people see what they did to my boy.” She told the mortician not to prettify Emmett. She insisted on a glass-topped coffin. She invited a photographer in to take pictures of her beloved son.
