Report: DNA confirms body is Emmett Till's

DNA testing has confirmed that the body buried in Emmett Till's grave is the 14-year-old who was slain in Mississippi a half-century ago, just as his mother and relatives have said these long years, the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger reported Thursday.The results come as Till's relatives plan to mark the 50th anniversary of the murder that galvanized the civil rights movement by laying a wreath at Till's grave on Sunday.Till's body was exhumed from a suburban Chicago cemetery on June 1 as one of the last tasks in a federal investigation of his death. The probe was renewed last year after a New York filmmaker suggested there were other participants in the murder who have never been charged.The Till case is one of several high-profile civil rights cases that have been reopened in recent years. It also helped spur a bill in Congress that would establish a "cold case" unit in the Justice Department to investigate old civil rights cases.......Since 1989, authorities in seven states have re-examined 29 killings from the civil rights era, leading to 27 arrests and 22 convictions. The most recent case was in Philadelphia, Miss., in June when a jury convicted Edgar Ray Killen, 80, of manslaughter for orchestrating the 1964 killings of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman.......Till was killed Aug. 28, 1955, several days after he whistled at a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, outside a store in Money, Miss., she operated with her husband, Roy.......CLICK TITLE FOR THE REST.

CYOUINCOURT007: ON MY BIRTHDAY......AUGUST 28.......I WILL BE LIGHTING A CANDLE IN MEMORY OF EMMETT TILL .......I ASK THAT YOU DO THE SAME AND USE THAT DAY TO LOOK INTO OUR PAST AND LEARN FROM IT .....SO THAT HISTORY MAY NOT REPEAT ITSELF......FOR HIS SAKE AND FOR THOSE WHO DIED IN LYNCHINGS,HANGINGS AND THE LIKE WHO'S NAMES WE WILL NEVER KNOW..........WE HAVE COME A LONG WAY FROM THOSE DAYS BUT WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO.