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 ...

“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 ...

Simeon Wright, 67, is Emmett Till's cousin and was with him the night ... State law prohibited us from placing that casket back into the grave, so we had to bury him in a new casket.

The woman at the center of the Emmett Till murder case has spoken ... a new book claims. Till’s brutal beating death in Mississippi in 1955, the acquittal of his professed killers by an all ...

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 ...

CHICAGO -- 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 Chicago full of playful life and returned ...

Emmett Till's cousin said ... “That’s what got [Till] killed: her lie. Her lie is what got him killed.” Till’s brutal beating death in Mississippi in 1955, the acquittal of his professed ...

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

It has been an important year for the memory and impact of Emmett Till’s life and terrible death. That alone shows how slow justice can be for people of color in America. In January, 67 years ...