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 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 ...

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 ...

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

Emmett Till's death was a key galvanising moment in the US civil rights movement A white woman from Mississippi whose 1955 accusation against a black teenager Emmett Till led to his murder has died.

Emmett Till had been visiting family in Mississippi when he was brutally killed President Joe Biden will establish a national monument to honour Emmett Till, a black teenager who was lynched in ...

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 ...

Mamie Till Mobley sits with her son, Emmett Till. AP Share As published in the Chicago Daily News, sister publication of the Chicago Sun-Times: No one expected Mamie Till-Mobley (Bradley at the ...