Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ (Chicago, Illinois)
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Illinois /
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Chicago, Illinois /
South State Street, 4021
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/ Chicago
World / United States / Illinois
church, African American Civil Rights Movement, historic landmark, historical building

This church building was the location in early September 1955 of the open-casket visitation and funeral for Emmett Till, an African-American teenager from Chicago who was murdered while visiting relatives in Mississippi. His brutal, racially-motivated killing was a catalytic moment in the modern civil-rights movement, drawing thousands of mourners to the visitation and funeral and horrifying countless others who saw photographs of his badly-mutilated body in African-American publications such as Jet magazine.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmitt_till#Funeral_and_reaction
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Coordinates: 41°49'16"N 87°37'33"W
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