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Insist on keeping emmett's casket open for the funeral, she invited photographer david jackson from the weekly black news magazine "jet" to take pictures of his body. >> she and the editors of "jet" magazine made the decision that they were going to display this for the country. >> all issues of "jet" sell out. they published it again the next week. all issues sell out. and it's only in the black press owned by johnson publishing. the white press didn't even see it at first. >> there was quite a controversy about why would "jet" print this terrible picture. they wanted to make a point, just to...

Casket open for the funeral, she invited photographer david jackson from the weekly black news magazine "jet" to take pictures of his body. >> she and the editors of "jet" magazine made the decision that they were going to display this for the country. >> all issues of "jet" sell out. they published it again the next week. all issues sell out. and it's only in the black press owned by johnson publishing. the white press didn't even see it at first. >> there was quite a controversy about why would "jet" print this terrible picture. they wanted to make a point, just to show you how bad things we...

>> we also have to show the facts on the ground that's motivating this. go back to what maymy till taught us. she said in the midst of her greatest grief, she said, i want the casket open, of my little boy, 14 years old. she wanted the world to see the ravages of racism and the brutality of bigotry. it was the black publications like "jet" magazine that took photos of his distended head. we've got to show the reality, on the ground, of what's devastating this country. for example, poverty. >> but on the one hand, i'm thinking just about the body of trayvon martin, which was published by non-pl...