Located across from the confluence of the Tallahatchie River and the Black Bayou, the spot has become a recognized commemorative site. Signs placed here by the Emmett Till Memorial Commission have ...

In 2008, the Emmett Till Memorial Commission erected a historical ... but that’s exactly why this site needs to be preserved. “The tragedy of humankind isn’t that sometimes a few depraved ...

“I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till,” she said. Mamie's decision would make her son's death a touchstone for a generation. At a church on the South Side of ...

The death of 14-year-old Emmett Till shocked the world and sparked the Civil Rights Movement. Wednesday, inmates at the Utah State Correctional Facility were able to learn about the details of his ...

Two-year-old Mamie Carthan arrives in Argo, Illinois, a small town outside of Chicago, with her mother. Her father has arrived several months ahead of the family to work at the Argo Corn Products ...

Of the many people whose lives still cast shadows on our history, one of them is that of a little boy, a 14-year-old named Emmett Till who left ... turn over in their grave.” ...

Black History Month program at the downtown Embassy Suites, which begins at 5 p.m. Parker is the last living eyewitness to the abduction of his cousin Emmett Till, who was killed at the hands of ...