It depends how recent or historical you want to go, there’s of course perhaps one of the most famous which was how Emmet Till’s mother, Mamie Till, decided to hold an open casket funeral, using her grief and the image of what happened to her boy as a way of making the community face what had been done. Concerning the 1908 riot in Springfield Illinois, we have the deaths of Scott Burton and William Donnegan. Theres the general grief of the community that’s documented in that after math and it’s inevitable lead to the development of the NAACP. If you’re looking more for like direct quotes from surviving family members, then I would search newspaper databases for articles and obituaries after the fact, they would some times have quotes and statements.
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It depends how recent or historical you want to go, there’s of course perhaps one of the most famous which was how Emmet Till’s mother, Mamie Till, decided to hold an open casket funeral, using her grief and the image of what happened to her boy as a way of making the community face what had been done. Concerning the 1908 riot in Springfield Illinois, we have the deaths of Scott Burton and William Donnegan. Theres the general grief of the community that’s documented in that after math and it’s inevitable lead to the development of the NAACP. If you’re looking more for like direct quotes from surviving family members, then I would search newspaper databases for articles and obituaries after the fact, they would some times have quotes and statements.