Emmett Till had been visiting family in Mississippi when he was brutally killed The US government has closed an inquiry into the infamous 1955 murder of a black boy in Mississippi after failing to ...

Emmett Till's murder was a spark in the upsurge of activism and resistance that became known as the Civil Rights movement. The sight of his brutalized body pushed many who had been content to stay ...

Emmett Louis Till was born in Chicago on July 25, 1941. Emmett was the only child of Louis and Mamie Till. He never knew his father, a soldier, who died during World War II. At the age of five ...

A journalist whose 1956 article was billed as the “true account” of Emmett Till’s killing withheld information that suggested ...

Nearly 70 years ago, 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally tortured, murdered and disposed of in a river after whistling at a white woman outside a store in segregated Mississippi. The widely ...

told of "black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze", and mobs of white Americans no longer line up to take commemorative photos beneath hanging trees. But that's exactly why the Emmett Till ...