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

Emmett Till, in some ways, gave ordinary black people ... and that image of his face was marked on just about every single black person, of that generation, let alone people in Europe and Africa ...

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 ...

What other book could it be? There’s simply not another. Clarksdale-native Wright Thompson is the author of this ...

Nearly 70 years ago, 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally tortured, murdered and disposed of in a river after whistling at a white woman outside a store in segregated Mississippi. The widely ...

The life and tragic death of Emmett Till is the focus of a new exhibit at ... of a trial that amplified the inequities Black Americans face within the U.S. court system, including a lack of ...

The National Park Service has awarded a $75,000 grant to the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in Sumner. Rep. Bennie Thompson made the announcement Wednesday.The funding will support the documentation ...