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By the time the truth came out, Emmett had been dead for fifty-three years and the photographs taken of him in the casket made White America see the brutality it often ignored or denied.

A group of figures surround an open casket in 1999’s “Family Grief,” their dark garments and mournful poses contrasting with the bright blue shirt of the man resting within.

“When I looked at him in the casket, I was like, ‘Wait a second.

His family says he ended his life as a private citizen whose dying wish—literally from his deathbed—was that Hichilema not even be allowed near his casket.

His remains are to stay in a cemetery outside Paris, but officers carried a symbolic casket draped in a French flag into the former church on the capital's left bank under a cascade of applause.