If you know where to look in the Mississippi Delta, you can find markers of what a culture ... with bullets – marks the spot where young Emmett Till's brutally-beaten body was pulled from ...

In 2008, the Emmett Till Memorial Commission erected a historical marker next to the river where Till’s body was found. It was replaced at least nine times, after the signs were stolen ...

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 ...