Till's Casket To The Smithsonian

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Aug 27, 2009 5:40PM

Some good news coming out of the horrors of the Burr Oak Cemetery story. The casket of civil rights figure Emmett Till, discovered discarded in a shed at the cemetery earlier this summer, will be getting an official home in a museum: the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture. The announcement is expected tomorrow before a ceremony marking the 54th anniversary of Till's death. [Tribune]