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 ...

The death of 14-year-old Emmett Till shocked the world and sparked the Civil Rights Movement. Wednesday, inmates at the Utah State Correctional Facility were able to learn about the details of his ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I've heard that excuse before. Emmett Till, young man, beaten to death all the way back in the 1950s. What did he do? He said hello to a white woman, something like that. And an all-white mob beat ...

Black History Month program at the downtown Embassy Suites, which begins at 5 p.m. Parker is the last living eyewitness to the abduction of his cousin Emmett Till, who was killed at the hands of ...