This national park site honors the family of Emmett Till, preserves the history of one of the country's most horrific hate crimes, and commemorates the struggle for civil rights that continues today.

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was with Emmett Till the night he was murdered and is still haunted by the tragedy today.

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 ...

The Rev. Wheeler Parker shared untold stories about what happened after Till was found murdered.

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 ...

EMMETT TILL, FROM CHICAGO, WAS VISITING FAMILY IN THE SOUTH WHEN HE WHISTLED AT A WHITE WOMAN AT A GROCERY STORE. THAT WOMAN’S HUSBAND AND FRIEND KILLED TILL IN 1955. HIS DEATH SPARKED THE CIVIL ...

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 ...

"You could not identify his face because he was so badly beaten, and they won the court case saying this is not Emmett Till, this is an old White man that you all have dug up out of the grave to ...