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President Joe Biden honored Mamie Till-Mobley with a monument and signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, making lynching a federal hate crime after the 14-year-old was murdered.
"In Mississippi, they're not gonna learn about what happened to Emmett Till," Dickerson said. "It's like the past was being erased." She combats that erasure through a program, We2Togther, that ...
Emmett Till Was Lynched, and His Family Was Denied Justice: ... Texas Parents Charged with Murder a Year After Their 4-Month-Old Baby Was Found Dead in a Motel Dresser Drawer.
Wheeler Parker, 85, Till’s cousin and the last living eyewitness, once sat on a college panel devoted to Emmett Till. He listened to scholars pontificate about his dead relative.
Most everyone is taught that Emmett Till whistled at a white woman at a rural grocery store on an August Wednesday in 1955. The following Saturday night, that woman’s husband and brothers ...
The barn is where, on Aug. 28, 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy named Emmett Till was brutally beaten and killed by two (and allegedly more) white men, who murdered him for the sin of allegedly ...
Emmett Till Interpretive Center Education Director Benjamin Saulsberry and National Parks Conservation Association Senior Director of Cultural Resources Alan Spears stand on the banks of the ...
OPINION: The death of Carolyn Bryant Donham, the accuser who sparked the murder of Emmett Till, should not be viewed as closure. It is an invitation to keep fighting for justice and equality.
Emmett Till memorial in Mississippi could be removed as part of DOGE-recommended $1 billion cuts to national parks. Massive reduction to National Parks Service budget and Donald Trump’s culture ...
Wheeler Parker, 85, Till’s cousin and the last living eyewitness, once sat on a college panel devoted to Emmett Till. He listened to scholars pontificate about his dead relative.
In his new book, author Wright Thompson examines the site of the notorious 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, and a Mississippi Delta culture that, he says, has spent decades trying to erase ...