Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., the cousin of Emmett Till, told a group in Lincoln it's important to keep telling stories that show ...

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

This plaque at the Tallahatchie River – replaced every now and then every time it's been riddled with bullets – marks the spot where young Emmett Till's brutally-beaten body was pulled from ...

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 ...

OBAMA UNTIL 2015. NOW TO AN IMPORTANT EVENT IN MILWAUKEE TODAY, REMEMBERING THE LIFE OF EMMETT TILL IN 1955. TILL WAS ONLY 14 YEARS OLD WHEN HE WAS KIDNAPED, BEATEN AND LYNCHED IN MISSISSIPPI ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-biography-mamie-till-mobley/ From left: Walter Reed, Willie Reed, Mrs. Mamie Bradley, mother of Emmett ...

A journalist whose 1956 article was billed as the “true account” of Emmett Till’s killing withheld information that suggested ...

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 ...

In January, 67 years after he was murdered by white supremacists in Mississippi, Till was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor that Congress bestows. Till’s mother ...

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.