While Tallahatchie County apologized to the Till family in 2007, and a statue was unveiled in 2022, the legacy of silence remains powerful there. Rev. Willie Williams, who helps run the Emmett ...

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 ...

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 ...

presented a model of a bench statue of Kelly that individuals could take pictures with. “We’re losing track of who our heroes are,” said Hall. “Emmett Kelly is a shining example of the ...