At 14, Emmett Till was brutally beaten and lynched by white men in 1955 Mississippi, and his death became a catalyst for the civil-rights movement Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies ...

In 2008, the Emmett Till Memorial Commission erected a historical marker next to the river where Till’s body was found. It was replaced at least nine times, after the signs were stolen ...

“I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till,” she said. Mamie's decision would make her son's death a touchstone for a generation. At a church on the South Side of ...

They later bragged about committing the murder in a controversial magazine interview. Thanks to a fundraising effort by Tallahatchie County and the Emmett Till Memorial Commission, the courthouse’s ...

Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till is born in Chicago's Cook County Hospital ... She is not given a full report of her ex-husband's death. One of his few possessions received by Mamie is a signet ring ...

"Emmett Till was a fun-loving prankster ... the wife of the store owner. Before her death in 2023, she revealed that she had lied when she accused Till of also grabbing her and making lewd ...

The last living person to see Emmett Till alive celebrated his memory in ... Rev. Parker Jr. "I knew what had happened was worthy of death." Bryant-Donham's husband and brother-in law kidnapped ...

Till's death — and his mother’s insistence on ... Parker, 85, the pastor of the church started 99 years ago in Emmett Till’s grandmother’s home, spoke Friday at City Impact and will ...