Donham was at the center of the lynching of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Black teenager whom the white woman accused of making improper advances in 1955. That unproven accusation led to Till’s ...

Hannah Kobayashi, the missing Hawaii woman who was found last week in Mexico, has dashed her family’s hopes of a reunion.

Emmett Till's death was a key galvanising moment ... In an unpublished memoir obtained by the Associated Press, Donham wrote that she did not know what would happen to Till when she made her ...

Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till is born in Chicago's Cook County Hospital to Louis and Mamie Till. Also this year, sociologist Gunnar Myrdal publishes a landmark study on whites' preoccupation with ...

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 Till's death was a key galvanising moment ... In an unpublished memoir obtained last month by the Associated Press, Ms Donham wrote that she did not know what would happen to Till when ...

That Emmett Till’s body even made it to Chicago from Mississippi demonstrates Mamie Till ... National Parks and Heritage Areas Join NPCA experts on this remarkable journey through some of the most ...

Emmett Till’s mother declined an offer from the mortician to “touch up” her son’s body, and she made the decision to have an open casket funeral. “I think everybody needed to know what ...

A new national monument for Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, will consist of three federally protected sites in Illinois and Mississippi. Here are the locations of the sites → ...

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

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The life and tragic death of Emmett Till is the focus of a new exhibit at the Chicago History Museum. On August 28, 1955, Emmett was kidnapped, tortured, killed and dumped in the ...