Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was with Emmett Till the night he was murdered and is still haunted by the tragedy today.

While Till's accused killers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, were acquitted by an all-white jury, the two later admitted to Till ...

September 23, 1955 Milam and Bryant are acquitted of murdering Emmett Till after the jury deliberates only 67 minutes. One juror tells a reporter that they wouldn't have taken so long if they hadn ...

The Rev. Wheeler Parker shared untold stories about what happened after Till was found murdered.

because she’d never heard of Emmett Till. “It’s not something they teach in schools in Mississippi,” she said. “Well, they do ...

Seventy years after the racist murder of Chicago teen Emmett Till in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, a ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-biography-roy-carolyn-bryant-and-jw-milam/ After their acquittal in the Emmett Till trial, defendant Roy ...

Parker sat down with 12 News Gerron Jordan to discuss the murder that sparked the Civil Rights Movement. Two men kidnapped, tortured and lynched Till in Drew, Mississippi. Till was visiting ...

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.

CHICAGO (CBS) --Seventy years after the racist murder of Chicago teen Emmett Till in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, a new exhibit on Emmett Till at the Chicago History ...