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Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ (Chicago, Illinois)

USA / Illinois / Chicago / Chicago, Illinois / South State Street, 4021
 church, African American Civil Rights Movement, historic landmark, historical building
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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.
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Coordinates:   41°49'16"N   87°37'33"W
This article was last modified 10 years ago