While Till's accused killers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, were acquitted by an all-white jury, the two later admitted to Till ...

The Party opposes, among other things, African American empowerment ... L.T. In Chicago, Mamie Till arrives at the Illinois Central Terminal to receive Emmett's casket. She is surrounded by ...

Seventy years after the racist murder of Chicago teen Emmett Till in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, a ...

The Grand Rapids African American ... One of the museum’s most anticipated goals is to find and display artifacts tied to influential figures, such as Malcolm X and Emmett Till.

The painting depicted the open-casket funeral of Emmett ... American and African American history and the history of race relations in this country,” adding that they “believe in providing a ...

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 ...