Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was with his cousin and best friend Emmett Till the night he was murdered and is still haunted by the ...

that Till was killed in Italy due to "willful misconduct." By the early 1950s, Mamie and Emmett had moved to Chicago's South Side. Both of her parents had remarried and left Argo, her mother to ...

that teaches kids in Drew the history her parents made sure she learned as a child. "When we would pass that barn, my mom would say, 'That is where Emmett Till was killed,'" Dickerson said.

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 ...