Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till is born in Chicago's Cook County Hospital to Louis and Mamie Till. Also this year, sociologist Gunnar Myrdal publishes a landmark study on whites' preoccupation with ...

Its title says a great deal, “Ghosts of Segregation ... I can’t imagine a more beautiful creation.” When Emmett Till’s body was returned to Chicago, to the A.A. Rayner & Sons Funeral ...

Simeon Wright, 67, is Emmett Till's cousin and was with him the night Till was kidnapped and murdered. M. Spencer Green / AP Images In 1955, Emmett Till—a 14-year-old African-American visiting M ...

This was the beginning of a devastating chain of events. In the spirit world, Jerome meets another ghost boy called Emmett Till, who shows him the hundreds of ghost boys who roam America each with ...

The woman at the center of the Emmett Till murder case has spoken out for the first time, admitting that part of her story about the black teen is false Lindsay Kimble is the Executive Editor ...

This national park site honors the family of Emmett Till, preserves the history of one of the country's most horrific hate crimes, and commemorates the struggle for civil rights that continues today.

Miller is an 81-year-old Chicago native who served as the assistant secretary for nuclear energy from 2009 to 2010 and was a childhood friend of Emmett Till. Emmett’s 1955 abduction and lynching ...

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 ...