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Family members search for the graves of relatives at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill., Thursday, July 9, 2009, after graves were discovered dug up Wednesday and bodies dumped into unmarked mass graves in an alleged scheme to resell the plots to unsuspecting members of the public.

A plaque marks the gravesite of Emmett Till at Burr Oak Cemetery May 4, 2005 in Aslip, Illinois. Till's unsolved 1955 murder in Money, Mississippi, after whistling at a white woman helped spark the U.S. civil rights movement.

Cemetery is final resting place of Emmett Till, other prominent African-Americans.