Following his murder, he was interred at Burr Oak Cemetary in Chicago, Illinois next to his mother Mamie Till Mobley.
In 1976, a statue was unveiled in Denver (and had since moved to Pueblo, Colorado) featuring Emmett Till with Martin Luther King.
In 1989, he was included among the forty names of people who had died in the Civil Rights Movement; they are listed as martyrs on the granite sculpture of the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama.
In 2006, the Emmett Till Memorial Highway was dedicated between Greenwood and Tutwiler, Mississippi; this was the route his body was taken to the train station, to be returned to his mother for burial in Chicago. This highway intersects with the H.C "Clarence" Strider Memorial Highway. Clarence Strider Jr..