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

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 ...

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

No one has ever been convicted in the murder of Emmett Till. But the last living person to see him alive celebrated his ...

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 ...

Today, Emmett Till is a civil rights icon ... “They don’t want to think about what their own parents and grandparents did,” Gresham said. “They didn’t want future generations to know ...

He was with his cousin, Emmett Till, in 1955 when the 14-year-old was accused of whistling at a white woman in Money, Mississippi. During a recent visit to Milwaukee at Holy Redeemer Church ...